THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature_ _Drama_ _Music_ _Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR MAY, 1915 Poems Mitchell Dawson What We Are Fighting For Margaret C. Anderson Echo (from the German of Fritz Schnack). America’s Ignition Will Levington Comfort Solitude George Soule Remy de Gourmont Richard Aldington Who Wants Blue Silk Roses? Sade Iverson “Mother Jones” and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn M. C. A. The Poetry Bookshop Amy Lowell America, 1915 John Gould Fletcher Poems Maxwell Bodenheim Some Imagist Poets George Lane Editorials and Announcements The Sermon in the Depths Ben Hecht “The Spoon River Anthology” Carl Sandburg Poetry and the Panama-Pacific Eunice Tietjens The Mob-God “The Scavenger” The Theatre Music 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 MAY, 1915 No. 3 Copyright, 1915, by Margaret C. Anderson Poems MITCHELL DAWSON Cantina You were the flame of a Pompeian lamp, Wavering in the sea-wind, Cosima, And ever to the gale of me you danced, Flickering out of reach.... I will return to Sorrento, To the wine-room under the cliff. Santa Maria del Carmine Here by the church door A shriveled bat Has folded his wings And dreams of dead crepuscular delights, Bat loves, bat orgies, Tarantistic flittings through the dark. O fragrant beggar blinking in the sun, I will drop three soldi in your hat.