In making selection, availability for recitation has been considered. There is no better way to stir the mind or fix the memory than by spoken words of beauty in rhythmic cadence, especially in schools. It is hoped they will be effective in such uses. Readers will find in the captain notes many helpful sidelights upon topics and personalities. These will commend themselves for their own sake. W. D. EATON. _The Press Club, Chicago._ CONTENTS ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT _Vachel Lindsay_ 144 ACELDAMA _Dr. George F. Butler_ 117 AFTERWARD _Charles Hanson Towne_ 133 ALAN SEEGER _Washington Van Dusen_ 14 AMBULANCE DRIVER’S PRAYER, AN _Chaplain Thomas F. Coakley_ 74 AMERICAN CREED, AN _Everard Jack Appleton_ 57 ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST, THE _Guy Forrester Lee_ 169 ANXIOUS DEAD, THE _Lieut. Col. John McCrae_ 109 APRIL SONG, AN _George C. Michael_ 189 ARMED LINER, THE _H. Smalley Sarson_ 183 “AS SHE IS SPOKE” 113 AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN’ BY _Lieut. L. W. Suckert_ 26 AUSTRALIA’S MEN _Dorothea Mackellar_ 96 BATTLE LINE, THE _J. B. Dollard_ 65 BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD _Edgar A. Guest_ 29 BEFORE ACTION _Lieut. William Noel Hodgson_ 13 BLIGHTY _Lieut. Siegfried Sassoon, M. C._ 121 BLUE AND THE GRAY IN FRANCE _George M. Mayo_ 41 BOY NEXT DOOR, THE _S. E. Kiser_ 172 BRITISH ARMY OF 1914, THE _Alfred W. Pollard_ 119 BULLINGTON _C. Fox Smith_ 34 BUT A SHORT TIME TO LIVE _Sergt. Leslie Coulson_ 103 CALL, THE _Robert W. Service_ 106 CHANT OF ARMY COOKS, A 66 CHRIST IN FLANDERS _L. W._ 55 CLERK, THE _B. H. M. Hetherington_ 94 COLUMBIA’S PRAYER _Thomas P. Bashaw_ 82 CORP’RAL’S CHEVRONS 37 CRIMSON CROSS, THE _Elizabeth Brown Du Bridge_ 48 CROSS AND THE FLAG, THE _William Henry, Cardinal O’Connell_ 45 CROWN, THE _Helen Combes_ 193 CRUTCHES’ TUNE, THE _Elizabeth R. Stoner_ 108 DESTROYERS “_Klaxon_” 84