In one hundred and forty-seven numbers of these eleven magazines I find there were published during 1914 a total of 647 poems, of which 157 were poems of distinction. The total number of poems printed in each magazine, and the number of the distinctive poems are: _Century_, total 71, 19 of distinction; _Harper’s_, total 39, 10 of distinction; _Scribner’s_, total 49, 18 of distinction; _Forum_, total 33, 13 of distinction; _Lippincott’s_, total 56, 8 of distinction; _The Smart Set_ (excluding November and December), total 148, 18 of distinction; _The Bellman_ (until November 7th), total 42, 23 of distinction; _The Yale Review_, total 19, 10 of distinction; _The Trend_ (April, and June to November), total 51, 16 of distinction; _The Masses_ (excluding December), total 53, 13 of distinction; _The International_ (excluding November and December), total 86, 9 of distinction. Following the text of the poems making the anthology in this volume, I have given the titles and authors of all the poems classified as distinctive, published in the magazines of the year; in addition I give a list of all the poems and their authors in the one hundred and forty-seven numbers of the magazines examined, as a record which readers and students of poetry will find useful. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness and thanks to the editors of _Scribner’s Magazine_, _Harper’s Magazine_, _The Forum_, _The Century Magazine_, _The Outlook_, _Lippincott’s Magazine_, _The Bellman_, _The Smart Set_, _The Yale Review_, _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_, _The Poetry Journal_, _The International_, _The Masses_, _The Metropolitan_, _Harper’s Weekly_, _The Craftsman_, _The Nation_, _The Southern Woman’s Magazine_, _Puck_, _The Infantry Journal_, _The Boston News Bureau_, _The New York Evening Sun_, and the _Boston Evening Transcript_, and to the publishers of these magazines and newspapers, for kind permission to reprint in this volume the poems making up the “Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914.” To the authors of these poems I am equally indebted and grateful for their willingness to have me reprint their work in this form. Since their appearance in the magazines and before the close of the year when the contents of this volume was made up, twenty-eight poems herein included have appeared in volumes of original poetry by their authors. For the use of “Yankee Doodle” and “The Firemen’s Ball” by Vachel Lindsay, included in his volume “The Congo, and Other Poems”; of “Fight,” “France,” and “Six Sonnets (August, 1914)” by Percy MacKaye, included in his volume “The Present Hour”; and for “Romance” by Conrad Aiken, included in his volume “Earth Triumphant,” I have also to thank The Macmillan Company, under whose imprint these volumes appear. Similar acknowledgment is due to the George H. Doran Company for permission to reprint “The Twelve-Forty-Five” by Joyce Kilmer, included in his volume, “Trees and Other Poems”; and to print “In the Roman Forum” and “A