“The Present Hour” is a vital expression of America in themes of war and peace.  The first section (War) contains the gripping narrative poem “Fight:  The Tale of a Gunner,” and a series of powerful poems dealing with the great struggle in Europe.  Few war-poems of the many published in this country and England reveal such sincerity, force and imagery, as these of Mr. MacKaye.  Among them are “American Neutrality,” “Peace,” “Wilson,” “Louvain,” “Rheims,” “The Muffled Drums,” “Magna Carta,” “France,” “A Prayer of the Peoples,” etc.  The second section (Peace) includes his widely read poems, “Goethals,” “Panama Hymn,” “School,” “The Heart in the Jar,” and other representative work.  The volume is an important addition to Mr. MacKaye’s long list of books and a valuable contribution to the poetry of our time.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S NEW DRAMA
The King of the Dark Chamber
By
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Nobel Prizeman in Literature, 1913; Author of “Gitangali,” “The Gardener,” “The Crescent Moon,” “Sadhana,” “Chitra,” “The Post-Office,” etc.  Cloth 12mo. $1.25 net.

“The real poetical imagination of it is unchangeable; the allegory, subtle and profound and yet simple, is cast into the form of a dramatic narrative, which moves with unconventional freedom to a finely impressive climax; and the reader, who began in idle curiosity, finds his intelligence more and more engaged until, when he turns the last page, he has the feeling of one who has been moving in worlds not realized, and communing with great if mysterious presences.”

     The London Globe.

NEW POEMS AND PLAYS

The Congo and Other Poems BY VACHEL LINDSAY.  Cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.

In the readings which he has given throughout the country Mr. Lindsay has won the approbation of the critics and of his audiences in general for the new verse form which he is employing.  The wonderful effects of sound produced by his lines, their relation to the idea which the author seeks to convey and their marvelous lyrical quality are something, it is maintained, quite out of the ordinary and suggest new possibilities and new meanings in poetry.  In this book are presented a number of Mr. Lindsay’s most daring experiments, that is to say they were experiments when they were first tried; they have been more than justified by their reception.  It is believed that the volume will be one of the most discussed of all the year’s output.

Borderlands and Thoroughfares
BY WILFRID WILSON GIBSON,
Author of “Daily Bread,” “Fires,”
“Womenkind,” etc.  Cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.