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 IMPORTANT NEW POETRY

By EDGAR LEE MASTERS New edition with new poems With illustrations and decorations by OLIVER HERFORD

One of the most remarkable books of many a year this is the consensus of opinion of Mr. Masters's Anthology. Originality of idea distinguished its physical construction; skill in the handling of words and lines marked the working out of this idea, while every individual poem was notable for the embodiment in it of great human understanding and sympathy. Mr. Masters's text is now to appear in a more elaborate dress with illustrations by Oliver Hereford. The artist has not only made a beautiful book he has given a new significance to many of the poems. He has succeeded in really interpreting Masters's work.

BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS

This book is written much in the manner of Mr. Masters's very successful "Spoon River Anthology." It represents his very latest work, and while it employs the style and method of its now famous predecessor, it marks an advance over that both in treatment and thought. Here Mr. Masters is interpreting the country and the age. Many problems are touched upon with typical Masters incisiveness. Many characters are introduced, each set off with that penetrative insight into human nature that so distinguished the Anthology. The result is an epic of American life, a worthy successor to the book which is responsible for Mr. Masters's pre-eminence in modern letters.

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