first movement would be that inevitable to a man standing at the head of his son’s corpse, and striving beyond his grief to descry his son’s spirit walking the spirit road; the gesture of the second movement, the reverent, slightly swaying tread of friends bearing the body on their shoulders over uneven ground; and of the last movement, the final tearing wrench of human affection. In the same manner, the _Iroquois Hymn_ on the dissolution of the Great League, carries the gesture of up-flung arms, and the bowing of heads that dust may be cast upon them; while in the Navaho and Pueblo Rain Chants, there is the recurrent but always slightly variable motif of the landscape as the determinant of the verbal pattern, as you can see on any old Zuñi _tinaja_. It is the precision with which Miss Barnes makes these things appear to the initiate, without at the same time obscuring the more obvious conclusions for the average reader, which distinguishes what she has to say above all other writings on the subject. No one who reads her notes on Amerindian verse forms need feel the limitation of personal knowledge a hindrance to his æsthetic and intellectual enjoyment of the poems themselves. I know of but one parallel to this achievement in the current descriptions of aboriginal culture in the United States. That is in George Bird Grinnell’s account of Cheyenne games, in which, without saying as much, the relation of all games to man’s aboriginal puzzlement about the world he lives in is convincingly brought out. Mr. Grinnell’s account should be read in connection with Miss Barnes’ work for the further light it throws on the origin of patterns, social, decorative, or literary, in living human impulses. In so far as any study does this, and especially as it does it in respect to areas of literary activity all too scantily familiar, it constitutes an indispensable service to American scholarship. MARY AUSTIN. CONTENTS PAGE PART ONE Indian Love Lyrics and Other Verse selected from the songs of the North American Indians. I SONGS OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP MY BARK CANOE 21 HER SHADOW 22 LOVER’S WOOING, OR BLANKET SONG 23 PAPAGO LOVE SONGS 25 LOVE SONG (DAKOTA) 26 THE BRIDE’S SONG 27 LONELY 28 WAR SONG 29 II SONGS OF GRIEF