serious omissions. As I said last year, Mr. Braithwaite's yearly summary of poetry is an important feature of the Boston Transcript which should be adopted by one paper at least in every city. Perhaps instead of a yearly summary, a column or two each month reprinting the best poems of that month, would be better. Newspapers please copy.
Two anthologies which will be reviewed later are the Catholic Anthology, published by Elkin Mathews, and including poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Douglas Golding, T. E. H., Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe, W. B., Harold Monro, Carl Sandburg, Allen Upward, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and John Rodker; and Georgian Poetry 1913-1915, published by the Poetry Bookshop, which groups together Gordon Bottomley, Rupert Brooke, William H. Davies, Walter De La Mare, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Ralph Hodgson, D. H. Lawrence, Francis Ledwidge, John Masefield, Harold Monro, James Stephens and Lascelles Abercrombie.
In Les Poètes de la Guerre, forty-odd men and one woman, some of whom are youthful soldiers as well as poets, and others are poets too old for military service, are represented each by one, two or three war poems. These poems may have appeared already in French magazines, but not before August, 1914. Thèodore Botrel, laureate of the
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