* _The Little King. By Witter Bynner._ (Kennerley: $.60 net.) A stark one-act play in verse of swift sure dramatic nerve about the little son of Marie Antoinette. With great economy of material and vivid historic imagination, Mr. Bynner has made _The Little King_ human and poignant in his brief little tragedy. * _Earth Deities, and Other Rhythmic Masques. By Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King._ (Kennerley: $1.50 net.) Four masques of earth with Mr. Carman’s old familiar lyric quality directed into fresh and living channels. Each of them would afford a rare delight to an audience, particularly if accompanied by the rhythmic dances which have been designed for them by Mary Perry King. * _Poetical Works. By Edward Dowden. In two volumes._ (Dutton: $4.00 net.) A permanent and integral part of English literature. It is gratifying to find tardy justice done at last to the merits of the late Professor Dowden as a poet. Those who care for the work of Mr. Woodberry will find the same qualities in Dowden’s poetry, but in a larger and more authoritative voice. Moreover, he is one of the great nineteenth century sonneteers. His many hymns to intellectual beauty have not an undistinguished line in them, and as a lyric poet his singing quality is infectious. This is the first edition of his poems since 1876, and contains many which have never been collected before. The second volume is a pleasant translation of Goethe’s, _The West Eastern Divan_. It will not greatly interest admirers of Prof. Dowden’s work, and should be sold separately. * _Borderlands and Thoroughfares. By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson._ (Macmillan: $1.25 net.) Mr. Gibson’s fourth volume in three years. Though not equal to his earlier books, it will well repay the lover of poetry. The first section, entitled _Borderlands_ consists of three dramatic dialogues in free verse which aim with some success to be simple, sensuous, and passionate. _Hoops_ is one of Mr. Gibson’s most satisfactory poems. The second section, entitled _Thoroughfares_ comprises shorter poems, many of which are dramatic monologues, and of these _Solway Ford_ and _The Gorse_ represent Mr. Gibson’s best. As we have said elsewhere, Mr. Gibson’s art “satisfies our æsthetic emotions and fulfils our social needs.” * _Aroun’ the Boreens: A Little Book of Celtic Verse. By Agnes I. Hanrahan._ (Badger: $1.00 net.) A slight volume of Irish songs equal to the very best by Eva Gore-Booth or Mrs. Hinkson, and tipped with a more delicate art. The volume should be on every shelf beside Moira O’Neill’s _Songs of the Glens of Antrim_.