* _Arrows in the Gale. By Arturo Giovannitti._ (Hillacre Bookhouse, Riverside, Connecticut: $1.25 net.) One of the more important volumes of new verse this year. A passionate voicing of social injustice in imaginative strophes, which introduce a new poetic form with considerable art. _The Cage_, when printed in the Atlantic Monthly, last year, was called the most significant poem published in that periodical since Moody’s _Ode in Time of Hesitation_. The volume claims a hearing as fine poetry rather than as an expression of Syndicalism. There is an appreciative introduction by Helen Keller which is good criticism. * _My Lady’s Book. By Gerald Gould._ (Kennerley: $1.00 net.) Twenty lyrics of pure song quality which are almost faultless in their perfection, though in a minor key. A volume to afford pure delight by its unaffected lyric quality. _Poems. By Katharine Howard._ (Sherman, French: $1.00 net.) Minor verse in _vers libre_, which is frequently pleasing and always individual. It is the expression of a whimsical personality who wears her singing robes lightly, and who is most successful in verse of macabre suggestion. * _Des Imagistes: An Anthology._ (Boni: $1.00.) The best collection of “imagiste” poetry, in which the work of Ford Madox Hueffer, F. S. Flint, Amy Lowell, and others is represented. There are many poems in the volume which will give pleasure, but as a collection it is uneven and rather tenuous. The work of F. S. Flint which it contains justifies the volume’s purchase. _The Thresher’s Wife. By Harry Kemp._ (Boni: $.40 net.) A narrative poem well told in the manner of Masefield, whose influence upon it has been great. * _Trees, and Other Poems. By Joyce Kilmer._ (Doran: $1.00 net.) The spirit of youth and grave faith expressed in lyric numbers. This slight little book defines a personality of poetic interest. The book shows less alien influence than most recent American poetry, and is quite individual in its affirmations. Though unassuming, the book will not meet with just treatment unless we recognize the fine lyric accomplishment of such poems as _Trees_ and _Martin_. Is this volume the prelude of a little Catholic Renaissance in American poetry? * _The Shadow of Ætna. By Louie V. Ledoux._ (Putnam: $1.00 net.) Severely chaste poetry on classical models of distinguished beauty. They reveal fine intellectual feeling that recalls Shelley in its intensity and Arnold in its disciplined reticence. They have all the warmth of life seen against an eternal background, and a passionate message which cannot go unheeded.