BOOKS The Ordeal of American Art Portrait of the Artist as American, by Matthew Josephson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. EVER since John Macy published his Spirit of...
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(guitars of Alcdcer Guitars, guitars of Alcacer-Quibir— Your song of sorrow is sweet to hear. You sing of lovers' hearts enchained, Of chestnut eyes, of kisses gained. Guitars, guitars of...
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'Windermere (Lake Legend) The spirit still surrenders here Its constant ardor. Here was sung The haunted music, deathless, clear, Of poets desolate and young. But even waters now conceal The...
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523 POEMS Seventh Station 'Tis not the stones that conquer now, nor the knotted flails; It is the soul that falters here, it is the soul that fails. O midway of our mortal life when the strong...
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BOOKS Holism and Evolution, by General, the Right Honorable, J. C. Smuts. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. G ENERAL SMUTS tells us that it "has been my lot to have passed many years...
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January 26, I9z 7 THE COMMONWEAL 323 MONET. PROPHET OF IMPRESSIONISM
By MORTON ZABEL M ONET lived, not to outgrow the craft of his prime or to see disregarded and disgraced the ideals for...
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September 2, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 397 POEMS My eyes!—God, they burn! Has the dark descended? Has the sun ceased to turn? Has the universe ended? I saw a planet, Flaming and falling. 'Twas...
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