My dears, we will tie _vers libre_ in the garden. Then let us go into the parlor where Mr. Laurence Binyon will pour tea; it will have sugar in it. Mr. Binyon will read to you from his latest book _The Winnowing Fan_. He is a gentleman of taste and culture who is vexed at the Germans. He is meticulously metrical and counts his syllables. He will say nothing unexpected.... If _vers libre_ howls in the garden, you may throw rhymes at him. _Mitchell Dawson._ Have You Read—? (_In this column will be given each month a list of current magazine articles which, as an intelligent being, you will not want to miss._) Shadows of Revolt, by Inez Haynes Gilmore. _The Masses_, July. Redemption and Dostoevsky, by Rebecca West. _The New Republic_, July 12. The State of the War, by Arthur Bullard. _The Masses_, August. Serbia Between Battles, by John Reed. _The Metropolitan_, August. Richard Aldington’s lucid account of the Imagists and their history in _Greenwich Village_, July 15. Almost any of the editorials in _Harper’s Weekly_. Can You Read—? (_In this column will be given each month a resume of current cant which, as an intelligent being, you will go far to avoid._) The reactions of the two Chestertons in _The New Witness_. Midsummer fiction issues of _The Century_ or _Scribner’s_ or _Harper’s_. _The Continent_ on Edgar Lee Masters’ _Spoon River Anthology_: “Each poem is in the nature of a confession, philosophical or satirical, telling secrets of human nature, good or bad—mostly bad. Because of its novelty and originality the book has attracted attention far and wide.... His attitude toward religious believers is a wrong one, and readers may well wonder at the scarcity of sincere, sensible Christians in Spoon River.” The Reader Critic _Lee J. Smits, Detroit_: We are disgusted and impatient with “peo-pul” just to the extent that our realization of superiority fails us. That impatient attitude reminds me of the ordinary attitude of the white toward the black. The white man is not sure of himself; history and biology do not give him sufficient support. So he bullies negroes at every opportunity. Some men even are impelled to contend for their superiority by abusing dogs. The sense of superiority abides in all living things of necessity, else no form of life would stand out against any other. Wild creatures never need argue, each with himself, as to his place in the world. His right to exist and to express himself is paramount in the animal’s soul. Only man ever doubts. Really “peo-pul” do not doubt. They with the artist’s mark on them do the doubting. When it is very faint, their doubting asserts itself in strange ways and the crude egoism thereof revolts us. “Peo-pul” crawl along self-satisfied.