There is no doubt that the war gave him this impulse, and that the poem _I Have a Rendezvous with Death_ must be classed among the literature directly produced by the great struggle. After four years, I should put at the head of all the immense number of verses inspired by the war John Masefield's _August 1914_, Alan Seeger's _I Have a Rendezvous with Death_, and Rupert Brooke's _The Soldier_; and of all the poems written by men actually fighting, I should put Alan Seeger's first. While reading these proofs, the news comes of the death of a promising young American poet, Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in our army, who fell in France, August, 1918. He was born 6 December, 1866, was a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia, and had published a number of poems. His supreme sacrifice nobly closed a life filled with beauty in word and deed. INDEX [Only important references are given; the mere mention of names is omitted.] Abercrombie, D., Adams, F. P., "A. E." (G. W. Russell), personality, a sincere mystic, assurance, discovery of Stephens, influence on Susan Mitchell, Aiken, C., Andrews, C. E., _From the Front_, Arnold, M., poem on Wordsworth compared to Watson's, Arvine, W. B., Aumonier, S., quotation from, Austin, A., Bacon, L., Barker, G., production of _Dynasts_, remark on Shaw, Beers, H, A., Benét, S. V., Benét, W. R., Bishop, J. P., Blackwell, B. H., a publisher, Bradley, W. A., Braithwaite, W. S., his anthology, Branch, A. H., a leader, poems, education, passion, contrasted with Masters, Bridges, R., poet-laureate, his verse, Brooke, R., canonized, Gibson on, poems, letters, Howland prize, compared to De La Mare, _The Soldier_, Browne, T., compared to Yeats, Browning, R., concentration, _Pauline_, on spiritual blessings, lack of experience, self-consciousness, _Christmas Eve_, natural poetry, metre of _One Word More_, _The Glove_, Ogniben's remark, compared to Brooke, temperament, contrasted with Yeats, Masters compared to, _Confessions_, Burns, R., influence on democracy, Burton, R., Bynner, W., Byron, Lord, sales of his poems, wit compared to Watson's, common sense, Calderon, G., remark on Chekhov, Campbell, J., Carlin, F., Carlyle, T., remark on Cromwell, Chaucer, G., effect on Masefield, Chekhov, A., centrifugal force, Clapp, F. M., Cleghorn, S. N., Coleridge, S. T., remark on poetry, Colton, A., Colum, P., Conrad, J., compared to Scott, Cooke, E. V., Corbin, A., Crane, S., _Red Badge of Courage_, Crashaw, R., his editor, Davidson, J., test of poetry, Davies, M. C., Davies, W. H., Davis, F. S., De La Mare, W., homage to, poems, compared to Hawthorne, retirement, _Listeners_, Shakespeare portraits, _Old Susan_, _Peacock Pie_, Dodd, L. W., Donne, J., reputation, stimulant, Drake, F., German statue to, poem by Noyes, Drinkwater, J., Egan, M. F., Eliot, T. S., Emerson, R. W., prophecy on poetry, Erskine, J.,