Blindma'ns Buff Now, when sounds the first drum's invitation The last war's reel throws on the brain This scene: a German convalescent station Where like children, the patched, the yet unslain,...
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Music Box With clear, unwavering eye, I heard The doctor's cool decree; The moment clothed me where I stood In sudden panoply. Block by steady block I paced And none to bid me stop, Step by...
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Cjpeathers in a Case Captured, neatly labeled, measured flange and spar, "Nine inches, this"—no, never, ten thousand leagues, a star! "Grey barred with white," ah silver, and dawn the hill...
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Balloon Spider O traveler on the wind of morn What calls you from the dewy plain? By urgent gossamer upborn Some far, elusive goal to gain Why leave you cup and thorn? From your own body reels...
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I7o THE COMMONWEAL December I2, I928 Conyai T HERE is one scene of magnificent "theatre" in the second act of this play by Harry Hervey and Carleton Hildreth; there are also many scenes of...
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BOOKS Tom Brown's Headmaster Dr. Arnold of Rugby, by Arnold Whitridge; with an introduction by Sir Michael Sadler. New York: Henry t~o\lf and Company. ...
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H OW Cardinal Mercier knew men! During the course of a very memorable interview he said to me: - Mr. Hoover—^Ah, there is a man!—a man the world needs, for it needs synthetic vision. The masses...
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