_Open Water. By Arthur Stringer._ (Lane: $1.00 net) A collection of delicate pictures expressing many frail and drifting moods phrased in _vers libre_ not yet quite sure of itself. The volume contains much quiet beauty, and is prefaced by a plea for _vers libre_ of considerable documentary and critical value. A volume which the lover of poetry can scarcely neglect. _Idylls of Greece. Third Series. By Howard V. Sutherland._ (Fitzgerald: $1.00 net) Modest idylls of Greek fable telling with some passages of beauty the tales of “Idas and Marpessa,” “Rhodanthe,” “Sappho and Phaon,” and “Œnone.” The blank verse, though not firm, is of well-wrought texture, and Mr. Sutherland expresses feelingly the fleeting beauty of Pagan love and Hellenic landscape. Mr. Sutherland’s three volumes merit more attention than they have received. _The Poems of François Villon. Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole._ (Lane: $1.50 net) A convenient edition of Villon’s best work, in which a reasonably accurate text of the two Testaments and the best of the Ballades and Rondels is printed, together with a running commentary, a vivid introduction, and translations of some of the shorter poems with dubious success. However, the volume is the best popular service to Villon that has yet been performed in this country, and should be on the library shelf. * _Little Verse for a Little Clan. By F.D.W._ (Published Privately: Not for Sale.) A slight little volume of thirty-five pages of delicate workmanship, which contain poems that make the book rank among the very best of the year. I know of very few books written by Americans which would afford the pleasure to discriminating readers that this volume would offer were it to be published in a form accessible to all. It is as delicate, at its best, as Beeching and Mackail’s _Love in Idleness_, and will please all lovers of _A Shropshire Lad_. It is just the sort of book which Mr. Mosher used to delight in finding for the American public. I shall be glad to give further information about it to inquirers. _Eris: A Dramatic Allegory. By Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff._ (Moffat, Yard, and Co.: $1.00 net.) A short dramatic allegory in which the elements of poetry are present, but which is hardly successful in fusing them into life. There are several pages of genuine poetry which prove the certainty of the poet’s ultimate accomplishment, and much competent craftsmanship. This is an honest book, whose weakness is that the imagination of the reader has no suggestive substance to feed upon. _Justification: A Philosophic Phantasy. By John H. White._ (Richard G. Badger: $1.00.) A poem in four short cantos and though philosophic in conception is full of abstract idealisms. The author has a fruitful imagination, but his reasoning on the origin and destiny of human life is profound. The verse, though concrete, is flexible.