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This article critically appraises the book "The Biglow Papers," by James Russell Lowell. It is in his character of a satirical and humorous poet that one now has to do with him, for a second series of the fatuous "Biglow Papers" is just put forth. Certainly no one will gainsay us when we say that in this particular walk no one can be for a moment compared to Lowell. Everybody knows that the poems were a complete success from. the ginning, and at once gave the author the highest place among living critical and humorous writers.

The article present information on the book " Papers From Overlook House," published by the J.P. Lippincott & Co. Some of the poems published in the book are of full of humor. Others are sad and the audience shed tears over the "Ghost of Ford's inn." The prose is worse than the verse, and the whole book is really supernaturally flat. It might have been written for the "Banner of Light" by the spirit of Martin Farquhar Tupper, or communicated by the same personage in a spiritualist circle at which Titcomb was medium.

The article focuses the book "One Part Love," by Babette Deutsch. Deutsch's poems bear about the same relation to poetry that book reviewing does to criticism. The book reviewer, though he may handle more books than the critic, though he takes them up and puts them down with the same appearance of authority, though he may on occasion show great critical acuteness, can never forget that what he writes is going into print alongside the news of the day. "One Part Love" does carry a certain conviction as a self-portrait.

Woman licks gold onto paper. Woman is where the edge of the cliff (A snowcapped mountain, a guess of a person) meets dead air (I). [Extracted from the article]

This article presents information on the book "Posthumous Poems," by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This book contains a number of poetical pieces which were discovered after the death of Swinburne among old papers which he had wrapped up in many bundles, scattered through the rooms he inhabited, each enclosed in an old newspaper. They are of various dates, one as early as 1857, another as late as 1907; and there was nothing to show whether the poet ever meant to publish them. Swinburne's fluent facility of expression was perhaps that which, more than any other quality, will reduce the permanent hold of his poetry upon readers in the future.

The article presents information about some recent books and their publication. A second series of papers by John Lubbock, entitled "Pleasures of Life," and a new volume, "London Life, and Other Stories," by Henry James, will be published directly by Macmillan & Co. Gum & Co. have in preparation for their classics for children series books including "Heroic Ballads and Poems," and "The Two Great Retreats of History." A new "Deutsches Worterbuch," by Moriz Heyne, in three volumes, is about to be issued by S. Hirzel Leipzig. It will be handier and proposes to itself to fill the place of Webster in English lexicography.

This article presents developments in the field of literature and it's publishing, as of December 5, 1907. Albert Feuillerat of the University of Rennes is preparing a complete edition of the poetry and prose of Philip Sidney. There will be two volumes of text and one of annotations and critical apparatus, published by the Cambridge University Press. Laura E. Lockwood, associate professor of the English language in Wellesley College, has now completed her book "Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton," a part of which was printed several years ago as a Yale doctoral thesis.

The article presents information about some books that are to be published soon. The next volume of the Oxford Library of Prose and Poetry will be "Selections from Dr. Johnson's Rambler" edited with preface and notes, by W. Hale White. Scribner's Magazine for March contains some interesting letters of late scholar E.L. Godkin, a selection from the forthcoming two volumes of the "Life and Letters," edited by Rollo Ogden and published by the Macmillan Co. In the same issue of Scribner Magazine is the first of a series of papers titled "Impressions of Contemporary France," by Barrett Wendell.

The article presents information on three books. "Shakespeare's England. An account of the Life and Manners of His Age." An understanding of the life and manners of Shakespeare's England has long engaged the efforts of the English school of criticism. Theobald, Steevens, Malone, and others in the eighteenth century led the way in antiquarian research which has justified itself by great additions both to knowledge of Shakespeare's times and to the interpretation of his poetry. Within the last generation these investigations have become very extensive, and have been carried by specialists into every field of Elizabethan activity.

In his paper on Robert Dinsmore, the author made a characteristic observation concerning rural poetry: "The mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off. The prize is not for them. He who would successfully strive for it must be his himself what he sings, one who has added to his book-lore the large experiences of an active participation in the rugged toil, the hearty amusements, the trials and pleasures he describes." This is well said, even if it has something of Wordsworth's jealous concern for his Cumberland mountains. The rural poet must be sincere and truthful; and the author was ever both, thanks to his character no less than to his environment.

The article presents information on various literary works. A reprint of the volume of Henry Vaughan's "Sacred Poems" which was originally published as one of the Aldine Poets, in 1882, has been issued by G. Bell & Sons. In accordance with the prevailing mode the book is made of rather thin paper and is light to handle. "Religion and Free Will" by W. Benett, consists of nine essays, closely but not clearly connected, the aim of which, it seems, is to establish the principle in matters of religion scientific intelligibility is a ground for suspicion rather than belief.

Presents letters to the editor on various socio-political topics. Discussion on the conference of college teachers held recently in New York; Influence of the theory of futurism on English poetry; Comments on a paper on Scottish explorer David Livingstone.

The article discusses the book "The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley," edited by George Edward Woodberry. A new edition of Shelley would not necessarily deserve more mention than a description of the paper and typography with winch it is issued, but the work, which is here announced, presupposes the labor of years, and, in some sense, the preparation of a lifetime.

The article presents a general criticism of books and poems. Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good or mediocre books come in from week to week and the author puts them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like cries and truck sounds from the street and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them. In the bad type of the thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, peoples' hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and hearbbreakingly than they have ever been expressed in any work of art.

The article presents information on Walt Whitman, a poet with a leading news paper of New York. The enlarged edition of 1856 received more attention and correspondingly more abuse. His frank and often wanton treatment of sex gave pause to almost every reader, and qualified the approval of his strongest champions. During the decade of the Civil War Whitman neither gained nor lost fame. It. was clear that he was not to be popular, but that the poets were to take him more seriously. By the middle of the eighties Whitman had become a monumental fact that no critic of American poetry could overlook.

The Society of the Dofobs, an association of book-collectors of Chicago, Illinois, whose first publication, the "Love-Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne," is one of the most valuable of book-club publications. This, is a publication of manuscripts in the great W. K Bixby collection. The manuscripts of the poems, seven in number, are reproduced in exact facsimile even to the waterstains on the paper. Fortunately, these facsimiles are printed on one side of the sheet only. The facsimiles show numerous and interesting differences between the text as originally written and that of the printed editions. From the Riccardi Press, has just appeared "The Revival of Printing: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Works," issued by the chief modern English Presses.

Presents several letters to the editor. City ordinance in Chicago limiting the size of newsstands; Misinterpretation of the new constitution of the Soviet Union; Poem on the perverted use of such innocent word as left and right.

Yi combined words with modified numbers and ornaments, proving poet Elisa Gab-bert's argument that punctuation (think: Emily Dickinson's feral dashes) may be the "bare-minimum" criterion for what makes a piece of writing poetry. The BOOKS & ARTS NOT LONG AFTER THE PUBLICATION AND SURPRISE SUCCESS of her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1997, Arundhati Roy was invited onto a live radio show in London. Yi Sang: Selected Works By Yi Sang Edited by Don Mee Choi Translated by Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney Wave Books. The question of speech and empire, and what language a colonial subject should use, is a constant subtext in the poems, essays, and fiction of the avant-garde modernist Yi Sang. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the some book prizes awarded to young women writers. There are very few first-book prizes available in the United States, and only two are: Barnard's New Women Poets Series and the Eighth Mountain Press Prize are awarded solely to women. Patricia Storace, herself a Barnard Storace can begin a poem from a place as external as a light-house and end, quite beautifully, with the murmurs of interior heredity graduate, was the first winner of the prize. Dorothy Barresi's"All of the Above,"on the other hand, the fifth collection in the Barnard Series, resides in the commonplace tradition of poetry.

The article presents information about the book "Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons," by Marliyn Hacker. The recounting of a love affair through sonnets has a tradition that dates back to Petrach, Petrarch's Canzoniere centered on his love for a woman called Laura, who seems more occasion than creature, an idea of woman figuring in poems offering and idea of love as exalted, unable to be consummated or even requited and ending tragically. What is really celebrated in Petrarch's love poems is the poet's skill, his art and his own emotions--passion sustained interminably and hopelessly.

The article presents information on the book "Black Zodiac," by Charles Wright. Charles Wright began a poetic project of astonishing scope. With the publication of Black Zodiac, however, The World of the Ten Thousand Things is revealed as merely the second installment in Wright's lifelong project; a third trilogy is underway. By his own admission, Wright has focused on three subjects for the past thirty years: language, landscape and the idea of God. Wright's sensibility is always speculative and never prophetic, however, and though his poems are drenched in spiritual longing, they seem resolutely secular as well.

This article presents information on several books on poetry. These books are "Compass Rose," by Elizabeth Coatsworth; "Nearer the Bone," by Charles A. Wagnerand; "Angel Arms," by Kenneth Fearing and "Bands and Rebels," by Keene Wallis. Poetry has always come high. Poets peddle their manuscripts from publisher to publisher and are told urgently that they might quite as well throw them into a convenient waste-paper basket and save shoe-leather. When because a poet is very tenacious or has very persistent friends a publishing house is prevailed upon to accept a volume, the firm takes pains to let the poet know himself the recipient of charity of no mean kind.

A year or more ago some verses by Edith Sitwell in the London Spectator aroused a controversy which filled that paper's correspondence columns for several weeks running. The meaning of the verses had been obscure to many readers, and the question raised was whether an editor has the right to publish a poem which he knows will mystify its audience. The editor in this case, who happened to be of Miss Sitwell's sex, closed the discussion by saying that she had chosen to print the poem not because of its meaning or lack of meaning but simply because it had seemed to her beautiful.

The article focuses on a poetry contests. "Poems," the editor would murmur in a strained voice, thousands of poems, short poems, very, very long poems, rhymed poems, very, very free poems. Poems written in pencil on copy-book paper, poems carefully typed on foolscap, tied with blue ribbon and decorated with holly. Poems about toothpaste or the spring or the poet's last wife but one or the income tax or washing dishes or the moon at the full, poems for breakfast, lunch, dinner.

This article presents information on the poem "The Soul of Collaboration," by P. Laval published in May 5, 1941 issue of The Nation. On May 7, 1941 the poem arrived by air mail, typed on a single sheet of paper with no identification as to sender. The envelope had not been opened. The verses have been printed with a literal translation, which unfortunately loses the double rhyme. The lines testify not only to the state of mind of the French but also to their age-old ingenuity. In the fourth chapter of "Zadig" Voltaire tells us how his hero tore tip his tablet and threw the pieces into a rose bush after writing a poem to a lady.

This article presents information on publication of books on various topics. Houghton, Muffin & Co. are to publish the book "Mine and Thine," poems by Florence Earle Coates and "Cain. A Drama," by George Cabot Lodge. Jonathan Nield's book "Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales," enters upon a third edition with much improved arrangement and with a carefully considered list of "Fifty Representative Novels" for approval or criticism. R.G. Thwaites's "Early Western Travels, 1748-1896" proceeds in volume 6 with a reprint of Alexander Ross's "Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River," in connection with John Jacob Astor's expedition to establish the Pacific Fur Co.

The article presents information on various publications. New publications of Houghton Muffin & Co. are "Essays for the Day," by Theodore T. Munger and a dramatic poem, "The Fire-Bringer," by William Vaughn Moody. James Pott & Co. will bring out in the spring "In Shakespeare's England," by F.S. Boas, "Bygone London Life," by G.L. Apperson. Among the Century Co.'s spring publication will be "My Airships," by Alberto Santos-Dumont, "Fable and Woodmyth," by Ernest Thompson Seton and "Roof and Meadow," by Dallas Lore Sharp.

The article presents information on various publications by publishing houses. Longmans, Green & Co. are about to publish in Now York and London a volume of poems by T.W. Higginson, entitled "The Afternoon Landscape." "Shall We Teach Geology?" by Alexander Winchell is to be published by S.C. Griggs & Co., Chicago, is a contribution to the perennial discussion over the claims of science and the humanities respectively to precedence in a practical education.

This article presents information about various books and their publishers. Longmans, Green & Co. have nearly ready Walter Besant's "Eulogy of Richard Jefferies," author of "The Gamekeeper at Home" and other remarkable works. Thomas Whittaker announces as the next volumes in the "Camelot Series" 'The Teaching of Epictetus,'; in the "Canterbury Poets," 'Poems of Wild Life,' edited by Charles G.D. Roberts; in the "Great Writers," a 'Life of Heine,' by William Sharp. Two of the seven volumes of the definitive edition of the Writings of John G. Whittier come to us from Houghton, Muffin & Co.

This article presents information on books and their publishers. Estes & Lauriat of Boston and W. R. Jenkins of New York have in hand a magnificent illustrated two-volume edition of "Notre Dame de Paris," the former firm in a new translation by A. L. Alger, the latter in the original French, with adornments an common. "The Curse of Marriage," a novel by Waltor Hubbell, is in the press of the American News Co. The illustrated edition of Henry C. Work's well-known poem "Marching Through Georgia" does not achieve distinction.

This article discusses the book "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Hartvig Ludendorff. In a word, Ludendorff and his drones have concocted an entirely spurious version of the poem, riddled with erroneous emendations. This saturnalia of textual deviation takes as its provenance the controversial holograph indited by Moore on a cocktail napkin from the Fraunces Tavern. Considerable scholarly debate has been expended on the authenticity of this paper most foul. When the true significance of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" was at last recognized and it was inducted into the poetic canon, the heavy-footed tread of the textual collators could not be far behind.

The article presents information on the book "The Home Book of Verse," by Burton E. Stevenson. This volume is enlarged to more than four thousand pages, on India paper, and is a sterling example of good presswork. The compiler has carefully heeded the constructive criticism evoked by his previous editions, and the book has so far gained in character and prestige that it may now probably be called definitive. The author's striking and admirable discriminations against every influence that tends to impair the practice of poetry will appear upon examination of his work, and the reader can also with very little trouble gain a sense of the steadfastness of judgment required to make them.

The average quality of Germany's lyrical productions is not in proportion to its enormous output. It suggests either lack of self-criticism in the poets or lack of judgment in the publishers. Among the poets whose half-century mark was celebrated last year, Karl Henckell was a conspicuous representative of the young generation that shocked the good German philistine of the century's end. A new book of verse by poet Adolf Frey, "Neue Gedichte," reflects delightfully the strong personality of the Swiss writer. The latest volume of verse by poet Stefan George, "Der Stern des Bundes," breathes the abstract beauty and impersonal dignity which seen part of his personality. Since the outbreak of the war much militant and. patriotic verse has been written by German poets, and some of it has been published in handy little paper-covered booklets for distribution among the men at the front.

Presents several letters to the editor. Expression made by German chancellor on disarmament and arbitration; Discussion on the possible connection between a poem written by poet Walter Raleigh and a familiar song in dramatist William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"; Comments on the origin of the periodical "Spectator."

This article presents information on the researcher Allan Swallow pamphlet's which are issued in limited editions of 200 copies, priced at 25 cents each, attractively made, with excellent typography and paper. They include "Verse, 1931-38" by Clayton Stafford, "The Well" by Barbara Gibbs, and "Morning Rise, and Other Poems" by Lincoln Fitzell. Except for the title poem in Fitzell's collection, a certain sameness about this verse suggests a school guided and formed by an impressive master of apprentices.

The article discusses the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," by T.S. Eliot. Eliot's new book begins with two drawings on orange paper. Presumably they were drawn by Eliot himself. The poems are not only about cats, but about English cats. Moreover, they are poems not for any children but for English children, for they refer often to such objects as pubs, area windows, the Admiralty, Indian colonels, and numerous London place names.

Presents letters to the editor. Comments on poet William Wordsworth's poem "Ode to Duty"; Discussion on a paper presented to Victorian scholar adventurer F.J. Furnivall in honor of his seventy-fifth birthday.

This article presents information on the works of author Allen Tate. The author largest single idea to be extracted from it is the conviction by which he rightly admits is not, beyond a certain point, demonstrable, that experience is something which must be grasped as a whole. Apparently Tate has been led to this conclusion through his study of literature, for the volume opens with a half-dozen papers on specific literary figures and topics, each devoted to one or another aspect of the general view, and pointing toward the long theoretical essay entitled "Three Types of Poetry." For Tate, poetry, the right sort of poetry, is neither propaganda, which he calls allegory, nor romantic self-expression, which he calls "the poetry of the will," but a vision of the whole-a creation of "the totality of experience in its quality."

Presents books about poems. 'Selected Poems,' by W.S. Graham; 'Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980,' by Robert Penn Warren; 'Mortal Acts, Mortal Words,' by Galway Kinnell Houghton; 'The Right Madness on Skye,' by Richard Hugo; 'The Various Lighth,' by Alfred Corn.

In this article, the author critically appraises various books related to different fields of literature such as essays, poetry, and poetical fiction. Some of the books considered here are: "The New Sentence" and "Lit," by Ron Silliman; "Artifice of Absorption," by Charles Bernstein; and "In the American Tree," edited by Ron Silliman. In "The New Sentence," a collection of essays, Silliman argued that poetry is part of a larger, oppositional strategy and cannot be viewed as an end in itself. On the other hand, "Lit" typifies Silliman's structuralist work. In "Artifice of Absorption," a book-length essay on poetics written in the form of a poem, Bernstein declares his insistence that poetry has to be understood epistemologically.

Poetry anthologies are among the most political tools in literature in their form, content and intent. The publication of one creates anticipation and joy mixed with heated debate, criticism and the sense that a group of poets is suddenly in a short-lived spotlight. Historical, groundbreaking anthologies like writer Donald Allen's classic "The New American Poetry 1945-1960," and "Naked Poetry," edited by Stephen Berg and Robert Mezey, may no longer be possible to gather, the field is so rich in volumes. "The Best American Poetry," has consistently been the most elitist of anthologies, despite the inclusion of a few new naples in each volume. The questions of inclusion and exclusion, as decided by art editor and the influence of certain poets, arise on a deeper level with "Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment," an odd and intense book put together by longtime Ecco Press editor Daniel Halpern.

The article presents information on the book "Life in the Hormeric Age," by Thomas Day Seymour. The Homeric poems are not only, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, the most important poetical monument existing," but they are, to borrow the terminology of a very different type of literary critic, among the most complete of human documents. Professor Seymour's "Life in the Homeric Age," though a work of independent verification and research, may not unfairly be described as an English "Buchholz," more attractively and lucidly written, reduced to the compass of one portly volume, brought down to date, furnished with maps and excellent photographs of Greek scenery, beautifully printed on thick paper, and decorated on its binding with golden Mycenaean ornament.

The article presents information about various manuscripts published in the journal The Atlantic Monthly. "The Mystery of Nature" is a poem by Theodore Tilton, in which he celebrates what the schoolmen used to call the "essence' of things, or what the Kantians call "things in themselves," the something or other, whatever it be, of which all that one sees or feel is but the outer crust. "A Wife by Wager" reads like a translation of a rather poor French story, and is clearly padding. In "Hours at Home," the author continues his thoughtful papers on the "Moral Uses of Dark Things," and there are several articles of interest and value.

This article presents a comparative account of modern poetry by comparing the works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. Robert Duncan has so far published ten books and his works are far more sensual than Olson's or Creeley's. Though classed with them, the author feels that Duncan seems to be a much more considerable figure than either Olson or Creeley. Olson and Creeley's obsessive--almost exclusive--concern with vocal structure and tonality leads them to exclude from their work any appeal to the eye-or to any other sense for that matter. The author opines that a prolonged bout of reading either one-particularly Olson-is likely to leave the reader feeling that he suffers from an acute case of sensory deprivation.

The article presents information on forthcoming books and publications. The writer of the book "Le Monde ou l'on s'ennuie" has just published a brief eulogy of the writer of the books "L'Aventunère" and "Le Geudre de M. Poirier," but it not is quite worthy either of its writer or of its subject. Writer Austin Dobson has followed up his editions of the books "Gay's Fables," "Eighteenth Century Essays," and the "Vicar of Wakefield," in the Parchment Library, with a volume of selections from the poems of writer Matthew Prior.

The article provides information about various publishers and publishing. G.P. Putnam's Son's list of publications includes "A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees," by Edwin Asa Dix; "The Land of the Viking and the Empire of the Tsar," by E. Frazer Blackstock; "The New Pandora: A Drama," by Harriett H. Robinson; etc. Among the forthcoming publications of A.C. McGlurg & Co. include "Familiar Talks on Astronomy," by Captain W.H. Parker; "Musical Moments," a collection of poetical passages relating to music, both natural and instrumental; and "Theresa at San Domingo," a child's story of the negro revolt on that island in 1789.

The article presents information on the books that are been published by various publishers. It is informed that, Macmillan & Co., will publish on July 29 "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development Causal Relations, Historic and National Peculiarities," by Henry T. Finck. There will be two issues, a London edition in two volumes and a one-volume American edition in somewhat smaller type. Daniel G. Brinton, professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania, has in press a volume entitled "Ancient Nahuatl Poetry," containing a number of songs in the Aztec or Nahuatl language, with translations and notes. Most of these were composed before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

The article discusses various books on poetry. The book "Poems by Clement Biddle," appears with great luxury of type and paper; and is also adorned with photographs, covering in the present case a wide geographical range, from the author's house at "Airdrie" in Pennsylvania to Oban in Scotland and the Col de Balme in Switzerland. The book "Colony Ballads," by George L. Raymond, is a volume further described by its author as "an attempt to represent something of the spirit and the circumstances attending the separation of the British colonies of middle North America from their mother country."

Poets in the magazine "Atlantic," are Edgar Fawcett, Emma Huntington Nason, Celia Thaxter, and J.T. Trowbridge. Of these, Trowbridge's pathetic "Rachel," and Thaxter's excellent salt-sea-smelling "White Rover," will be liked, and so in another way will "Atalanta," which expresses a good but not new thought with graceful ease; the others are worthy of the "New York Ledger." C.D. Warner concludes his sketches of life in the British Provinces, coming out uncommonly strong in this last paper. T.B. Aldrich and W.M. Baker go on with their serial stories; J.G. Austin describes a convent school; J.W. De Forest writes learnedly and amusingly about the cat of ancient times; and W.W. Harney describes well an adventure, decidedly,of the thrilling variety. This last-mentioned department is a new one. Poet Perry's Turgenef seems to be very good indeed. The critic's manner and tone, as here visible, are very attractive, and to the criticism readers of Turgenef will assent.

The article discusses books and authors. As the bulk of Mark Van Doren's poetic product has steadily increased, it has proposed to the reader, in a form progressively acute, a rather special problem. There is a large body of poetry which, taken in the large, seems to sink under its own weight when it is subjected to close scrutiny. If the reader turns the pages fast enough, there is the constant illusion of poetry, but if he lingers to inspect the individual page-unless he has happened to stumble on the right page-the illusion may vanish in a puff.