* _Songs for the New Age. By James Oppenheim._ (Century Co.: $1.25 net.) The most significant volume of new poetry of the year 1914, as Vachel Lindsay’s _General William Booth Enters Into Heaven_ was the most significant volume of 1913. With more self-conscious art than Whitman, in the verse form which Whitman was once thought to have perfected, Mr. Oppenheim sings the joys and sorrows of the race now and to come. The vision of these poems is swift and sure: their philosophy, mature and American. If there is one volume of verse this year which we might safely recommend to every American man and woman who has not read poetry before, it is this book, where they will find their dreams and strivings sung and interpreted in a book which has qualities of greatness. The form of these poems is so difficult to shape perfectly that Mr. Oppenheim’s technical achievement can only be characterized as masterly. The volume is the only one in which the use of “polyrhythmic verse” can claim complete justification since _Leaves of Grass_, and its art is as individual as its matter. _Songs for the New Age_ may reaffirm much of Whitman, but they do not echo him. The volume will prove more and more satisfying with each rereading. And its message to the American people may not pass unheeded. * _The Grand Canyon, and Other Poems. By Henry Van Dyke._ (Scribner: $1.25 net.) Poetry of the quality familiar to Dr. Van Dyke’s readers, and fully equal to the poetry in his earlier volumes. To the more serious poems are added several delightfully humorous poems of occasion, among which _Ars Agricolaris_ is a classic of its kind. * _The Flight, and Other Poems. By George Edward Woodberry._ (Macmillan $1.25 net.) Mr. Woodberry’s finest volume of verse, in which he gives expression to many moods of intellectual beauty and a philosophy of the ideal akin to Shelley. It contains one lyric, _Comrades_, absolutely peerless and worthy to be set beside Browning’s _The Guardian Angel_, if it does not surpass it. These poems are the fruit of a ripe culture and a passionate idealism thoroughly American in its voicing of its message. One of the most completely satisfying volumes of the year. II. TWENTY-FIVE BOOKS OF POETRY FOR A LARGER LIBRARY. _The List of ten books printed above and the following fifteen titles:_-- * _In Deep Places. By Amelia Josephine Burr._ (Doran: $1.00 net.) Fine dramatic monologues and narrative poems, which represent a great advance over Miss Burr’s previous book. _Jehane_ is a worthy sequel to _The Haystack in the Floods_ by William Morris. _Allah is With the Patient_ and other narrative poems are related in a blank verse of firm yet varied texture. Miss Burr’s dramatic imagination interprets Italy and England in human terms, and travel has afforded her lyric opportunities to which she has responded sensitively and well. With this volume Miss Burr has come to stay.