The John Lane Company:--"The Wife of Flanders," by Gilbert K. Chesterton, from _Poems_ (published also by Messrs. Burns and Gates, London); "The Soldier," and "The Dead," by the late Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, from _The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke_ (published also by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, in _19l4, and Other Poems_). Erskine Macdonald:--The following poems from _Soldier Poets_:--"The Beach Road by the Wood," by Lieutenant Geoffrey Howard; "Before Action," by the late Lieutenant W.N. Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne"); "Courage," by Lieutenant Dyneley Hussey; "Optimism," by Lieutenant A. Victor Ratcliffe; "The Battlefield," by Major Sidney Oswald; "To an Old Lady Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers," by Corporal Alexander Robertson; "The Casualty Clearing Station," by Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse; and "Hills of Home," by Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey. The Macmillan Company:--"To Belgium"; "Verdun"; "To a Mother," and "Song of the Red Cross," by Eden Phillpotts, from _Plain Song, 1914-1916_ (published also by William Heinemann, London); "The Island of Skyros," by John Masefield; "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," from _The Congo and Other Poems_, by Vachel Lindsay; "O Glorious France," by Edgar Lee Masters, from _Songs and Satires_; "Christmas, 1915," from _Poems and Plays_, by Percy MacKaye; "The Hellgate of Soissons," by Herbert Kaufman, from _The Hellgate of Soissons_; "Spring in War-Time," by Sara Teasdale, from _Rivers to the Sea_; and "Retreat," "The Messages," and "Between the Lines," by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. Messrs. Macmillan & Company:--"Australia to England," by Archibald T. Strong, from _Sonnets of the Empire_, and "Men Who March Away," by Thomas Hardy, from _Satires of Circumstance_. Elkin Mathews:--"The British Merchant Service" (the _Spectator_), by C. Fox Smith, from _The Naval Crown_. John Murray:--"The Sign," and "The Trenches," by Lieutenant Frederic Manning. The Princeton University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A Book of Princeton Verse_. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons:--"I Have a Rendezvous with Death," and "Champagne, 1914-1915," by the late Alan Seeger, from _Poems_. Messrs. Sherman, French & Company:--"The _William P. Frye_" (_New York Times_), by Jeanne Robert Foster, from _Wild Apples_. Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson:--"We Willed It Not" (_The Sphere_), by John Drinkwater; "Three Hills" (London _Times_), by Everard Owen, from _Three Hills, and Other Poems_; "The Volunteer," and "The Fallen Subaltern," by Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, from _The Volunteer, and Other Poems_. Messrs. Truslove and Hanson:--"A Mother's Dedication," by Margaret Peterson, from _The Women's Message_. INTRODUCTION