THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature_ _Drama_ _Music_ _Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR MARCH, 1915 Two Poems Fritz Schnack For the New Animal in America Will Levington Comfort Maurice Browne and The Little Theatre John Cowper Powys Winter’s Pride George Soule Two Points of View: Mrs. Ellis’s Gift to Chicago Mary Adams Stearns Mrs. Ellis’s Failure Margaret C. Anderson The Acrobat Eloise Briton A Young American Poet Richard Aldington Editorials and Announcements Ten Grotesques Arthur Davison Ficke A New Standard of Art Criticism Huntley Carter My Friend, the Incurable Alexander S. Kaun New York Letter George Soule “Alice in Wonderland” Samaroff and Claussen Herman Schuchert Book Discussion The Reader Critic 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. II MARCH, 1915 No. 1 Copyright, 1915, by Margaret C. Anderson Two Poems FRITZ SCHNACK (_Translated from the German by William Saphier_) BLOOMING SUNLIGHT Sharp rips the plow And roots the day into the opened field, And kneads the light and splendor of the world Into the conquered darkness. In summer, between close rows Of waving blades, grow flowers Blooming buried sunlight. EVENING GIFT Spread like the palm of a hand Lies at bottom the evening, gold and red. Every man may take as much as he likes Of its beauty, up to the farthest hilltops, As if it were wine and bread Handed out to feed hungry souls And to fill with light the thirsty.