As in former years in my annual summary in the _Boston Transcript_, I have examined the contents of the leading American magazines. To the seven magazines which I examined last year,--namely, _Harper’s_, _Scribner’s_, _The Century_, _The Forum_, _Lippincott’s_, _The Smart Set_, and _The Bellman_,--I have added this year three monthlies, _The Trend_, _The International_, and _The Masses_; and one quarterly, _The Yale Review_. _The Bellman_ still maintains its high poetic distinction, by virtue of which it prints more good poetry than any other American weekly, and most American monthlies. As last year, I have winnowed from other magazines distinctive poems for classification and notice:--one each from _The Metropolitan_, _The Craftsman_, _The Poetry Journal_, the _Southern Woman’s Magazine_, _Puck_, and _The Infantry Journal_; and two each from _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_, _The Nation_, _The Atlantic Monthly_, and the _Outlook_; while from three newspapers I have selected fourteen poems:--eleven from the _Boston Evening Transcript_, two from the _Boston News Bureau_, and one from the _New York Evening Sun_. In quoting from the _Boston Transcript_, I wish to testify to the ready recognition and encouragement this daily paper has offered to poets and poetry. It is one of the paper’s finest traditions. The poems published during the year in the eleven representative magazines I have submitted to an impartial critical test, choosing from the total number what I consider the “distinctive” poems of the year. From the distinctive pieces are selected fifty-two poems, to which are added thirty from other magazines and from newspapers not represented in the list of eleven, making a total of eighty-two, which are intended to represent what I call an “Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914.” Quoting from what I have written in previous years, to emphasize the methods which guided my selections, the reader will see how impartial are the tests by which the distinctive and best poems are chosen: “I have not allowed any special sympathy with the subject to influence my choice. I have taken the poet’s point of view, and accepted his value of the theme he dealt with. The question was: How vital and compelling did he make it? The first test was the sense of pleasure the poem communicated; then to discover the secret or the meaning of the pleasure felt; and in doing so to realize how much richer one became in a knowledge of the purpose of life by reason of the poem’s message.”