Witter Bynner--the spelling of whose name I defy any one to remember, and envelopes addressed to him must be a collection of curiosities--was born at Brooklyn on the tenth of August, 1881. He was graduated from Harvard in 1902, and addressed his _Alma Mater_ in an _Ode To Harvard_, published in book form in 1907. In 1917 he collected in one attractive volume, _Grenstone Poems_, the best of his production--exclusive of his plays and prose--up to that date. One who knew Mr. Bynner only by the terrific white slave drama _Tiger_, would be quite unprepared for the sylvan sweetness of the Grenstone poems. Their environment, mainly rural, does not localize the sentiment overmuch; for the poet's mind is a kingdom, even though he is bounded in a nutshell. The environment, however, may be partly responsible for the spirit of healthy cheerfulness that animates these verses; whatever they lack, they certainly do not lack purity and charm. Far from the madding crowd the singer finds contentment, which is the keynote of these songs; happiness built on firm indestructible foundations. Some of the divisional titles indicate the range of subjects: _Neighbors and the Countryside, Children and Death, Wisdom and Unwisdom, Celia, Away from Grenstone_, where homesickness is expressed while travelling in the Far East. And the tone is clearly sounded in A GRACE BEFORE THE POEMS "Is there such a place as Grenstone?" Celia, hear them ask! Tell me, shall we share it with them?-- Shall we let them breathe and bask On the windy, sunny pasture, Where the hill-top turns its face Toward the valley of the mountain, Our beloved place? Shall we show them through our churchyard, With its crumbling wall Set between the dead and living? Shall our willowed waterfall, Huckleberries, pines and bluebirds Be a secret we shall share?-- If they make but little of it, Celia, shall we care? It will be seen that the independence of Mr. Bynner is quite different from the independence of Mr. Underwood; but they both have the secret of self-sufficiency. Another loyal Harvard poet is Herman Hagedorn, who was born at New York in 1882, and took his degree at college in 1907. For some time he was on the English Faculty at Harvard, and has a scholar's knowledge of English literature. He has published plays and books of verse, of which the best known are _A Troop of the Guard_ (1909) and _Poems and Ballads_, which appeared the same year. He has a good command of lyrical expression, which ought to enable him in the years to come to produce work of richer content than his verses have thus far shown.