We have been patient--and they named us weak; We have been silent--and they judged us meek, Now, in the much-abused, high name of God We speak. Oh, not with faltering or uncertain tone-- With chosen words we make our meaning known, That like a great wind from the West shall shake The double throne. Our colours flame upon the topmost mast,-- We lift the glove so arrogantly cast, And in the much-abused, high name of God We speak at last. Another war alchemist is Mary Carolyn Davies, poet of Oregon and Brooklyn. She knows both coasts of America, she understands the American spirit of idealism and self-sacrifice, and her verses have a direct hitting power that will break open the hardest heart. In her book, _The Drums in Our Street_ (1918), the glory and the tragedy of the world-struggle are expressed in terms of individual feeling. There is decided inequality in this volume, but the best pieces are so carefully distributed among the commonplace that one must read the whole work. Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago and went to school in Georgetown, D. C. In connection with the World's Exposition in Chicago she received the honour of being formally invited to write a poem for the dedication. Accordingly at the ceremony commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, 21 October, 1892, her _Columbian Ode_ was given with music. Harriet Monroe's chief services to the art of poetry are seen not so much in her creative work as in her founding and editing of the magazine called _Poetry_, of which I made mention in my remarks on Vachel Lindsay. In addition to this monthly stimulation--which has proved of distinct value both in awakening general interest and in giving new poets an opportunity to be heard, Miss Monroe, with the assistance of Alice Corbin Henderson, published in 1917 an anthology of the new varieties of verse. Certain poets are somewhat arbitrarily excluded, although their names are mentioned in the Preface; the title of the book is _The New Poetry_; the authors are fairly represented, and with some sins of commission the selections from each are made with critical judgment. Every student of contemporary verse should own a copy of this work.