Rose-jar, soft to the finger’s touch, rose-jar like a maiden’s breast, thou chance issue from the womb of Beauty—what coarse-mouthed potter turned thee on his wheel, shaping thee from the inert clay? And in what ancient garden bloomed the flowers now so dry within thy comely belly, now so very dry but oh so fragrant to the nostrils of the poet?—Rose-jar, soft to the finger’s touch, rose-jar like a maiden’s breast—and even thou some day will lie upon the earth and all thy loveliness and all thy perfume will return again unto the clay ... unto the clay beneath swift brutal feet.... IX _Vesperal_ Clear-eyed evening, and thou, dark shadows, children of the moon, let us dance together a little while, and sing to one another antique melodies, compounded all of passion and youth and glad forgetfulness.—For soon the morning will come again out of the fateful East—the morning with all its sullen duties.... Announcements for June The June issue will contain: Eight new poems by William Butler Yeats “An Anachronism at Chinon” by Ezra Pound The second installment of “Imaginary Letters” by Wyndham Lewis The second part of T. S. Eliot’s “Eeldrop and Appleplex” James Joyce has written to say that he will be among the early contributors. The next number will be increased to at least 44 pages. The Little Review Book Shop The Little Review Bookshop is now open. You may order any book you want from us and we have the facilities for delivering or mailing it to you at whatever time you specify. You may come in and look over our stock and take your selections with you. Some of the books you will want are these: James Joyce’s _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_. $1.50 Nexo’s _Pelle the Conqueror_. Four volumes, $6.00 Gilbert Cannan’s _Mendel_. $1.50 Romain Rolland’s _Jean Christophe_. Three volumes, $5.00 D. H. Lawrence’s _Prussian Officer_ and _Twilight in Italy_, $1.50 each. Ethel Sidgwick’s _Promise_ and _Succession_. Each $1.50 Ezra Pound’s _Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska_. $3.50 _The Imagist Anthology, 1917._ 75 cents _Verharen’s Love Poems_, translated by F. S. Flint. $1.00 _The Plays of Emile Verharen_, translated by Flint, Arthur Symons, etc. $1.50 Willard Huntington Wright’s _Modern Painting_ and _The Creative Will_. $2.50 and $1.50 Tagore’s _Reminiscences_ and _Personality_. Each $1.50 The complete works of Anatole France. Per volume, $1.25 The Works of Henri Fabre. 6 volumes. Each $1.50 The Works of Mark Twain. 25 volumes, $25.00 _Creative Intelligence_, by John Dewey and others. $2.00 Carl Sandburg’s _Chicago Poems_. $1.25 Joseph Conrad’s _The Shadow Line_. $1.35 Maurice Hewlett’s _Thorgils_. $1.35 Andreyev’s _The Little Angel_, _The Crushed Flower_, etc. $1.35 and $1.50 Kuprin’s _A Slave Soul_. $1.50