THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature_ _Drama_ _Music_ _Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR DECEMBER, 1914 Poems Richard Aldington A Great Pilgrim-Pagan George Soule My Friend, the Incurable: Ibn Gabirol On Germanophobia; on the perils of Monomania; on Raskolinkov and Alexander Berkman; on surrogates and sundry subtleties. On Poetry: Aesthetics and Common-Sense Llewellyn Jones In Defense of Vers Libre Arthur Davison Ficke The Decorative Straight-Jacket Maxwell Bodenheim Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Eunice Tietjens Scharmel Iris Milo Winter The Poetry of T. Sturge Moore Llewellyn Jones Amy Lowell’s Contribution M. C. A. Star Trouble Helen Hoyt Parasite Conrad Aiken Personality George Burman Foster The Prophecy of Gwic’hlan Edward Ramos Editorials and Announcements Winter Rain Eunice Tietjens Home as an Emotional Adventure The Editor A Miracle Charles Ashleigh London Letter E. Buxton Shanks New York Letter George Soule The Theatre, Music, Art Book Discussion Sentence Reviews Published Monthly 15 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher Fine Arts Building CHICAGO $1.50 a year Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice, Chicago. THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. I DECEMBER, 1914 No. 9 Poems RICHARD ALDINGTON On a Motor-Bus at Night (Oxford Street) The hard rain-drops beat like wet pellets On my nose and right cheek As we jerk and slither through the traffic.