THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature Drama Music Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR JULY, 1914 Poems Charles Ashleigh The Renaissance of Parenthood The Editor "Des Imagistes" Charles Ashleigh Of Rupert Brooke and Other Matters Arthur Davison Ficke The New Loyalty George Burman Foster The Milliner (Poem) Sade Iverson "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" Margaret C. Anderson Editorials New York Letter George Soule Dostoevsky's Novels Maurice Lazar Book Discussion: An Unreeling Realist De Witt C. Wing The Revolt of the "Once Born" Eunice Tietjens Verlaine and Tolstoy Alexander S. Kaun Conrad's Quote Henry B. Sell "Clark's Field" Marguerite Swawite The "Savage" Painters A. S. K. Sentence Reviews Published Monthly 25 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher CHICAGO Fine Arts Building $2.50 a year THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. I JULY, 1914 No. 5 POEMS CHARLES ASHLEIGH BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (_A Mystery Rime for Little Children of All Ages_) The rain comes down and veils the hills. Ah, tender rain for aching fields! The hills are clothed in a mist of rain. (My heart is clothed in a mist of pain.) Ah, mother rain, that laves the field, If I to you my poor soul yield, Will you not cleanse it, soothe it, tend it, Weep upon it 'til 'tis mended? 'Twas sweet to sow, 'tis hard to reap. Come, mother rain, and lull me to sleep. Lull me to sleep and wash me away, Out of the realm of Night and Day, Back to the bourne from whence I came, Seeming alike yet not the same.... Rain, you are more than rain to me. And Lash of Pain may be a Key. Ope, then, the door and tread within. The double Door of Good and Sin Is vanquished. Lo, with bread and wine, The table's spread! The feast is Mine! LOVE IN THE ABYSS