Garden City · Doubleday, Page & Company · New York THE MYSTERIOUS POETS The latest school of poetry is “The Spectrists.” It denies any connection with all the other of the late and later schools of poetry, the Futurists, the Imagistes, the Vorticists, etc. The writers of the Spectric School follow the musical convention by giving no titles to their poems, but calling them merely “Opus I,” “Opus II,” etc. The first work of this school to be brought out is a book of verses entitled “Spectra,” by Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan, published by Mitchell Kennerley. These writers believe that Americans over-accent the personal circumstances and doings of artists and would rather let their work speak for them than their biographers. The publisher, however, suggests these few biographical details: Anne Knish is a native of Buda-Pesth, who has for the past few years lived in Pittsburgh. She is the author of numerous critical reviews in Continental periodicals, and of one volume of poems in Russian, but with a Latin title, “Via Aurea.” Emanuel Morgan, the originator of the Spectra School of Poetry, has for years been interested primarily in painting, and is now beginning to publish his work in verse. He recently returned to Pittsburgh, his native city, after living for twenty years in Paris. Some years ago he met the late Remy De Gourmont, and out of this meeting there grew a close friendship. It was Remy De Gourmont, so it is stated, who suggested to Mr. Morgan that he devote himself to writing and to expression in the new form he invented. Mr. Morgan, however, does not claim that M. De Gourmont accepted the theories of poetry that are formulated and expressed in “Spectra.” Mr. Morgan, in answer to many inquiries from readers who are puzzled by Mrs. Knish’s preface to the volume “Spectra,” contributes this brief explanation of the theory: “The Spectric intention,” he writes, “is to let the poem, or spectrum, focus through the surface to the heart of what is being considered.” Mr. Morgan and Mrs. Knish are preparing another volume of spectra, to include not only new poems of their own, but contributions by other members of the school. Meanwhile “Spectra,” with its strange cover, and stranger contents, is meeting with a large sale at all bookstores. PELLE THE CONQUEROR _Martin Andersen Nexö_ _English translation just completed in four volumes. Each, $1.50 net._