_The Congo_ is the title poem of his new volume. To describe the poem adequately would require almost as much space as the nine pages it occupies. So it must suffice to say that it is perilously near great poetry, broad in sweep, imaginative, full of fire and color, psychological—and very strange. Much in the same vein are _The Firemen’s Ball_ and _The Santa Fe Trail_, which appeared originally in _Poetry_. Several of the poems in this volume, among them _Darling Daughter of Babylon_ and _I Went Down Into the Desert_, are already familiar to readers of THE LITTLE REVIEW, as they were first published in the June number. The volume contains also a delightful section of poems for children, and a group dealing with the present European war. Both _The Congo_ and Mr. Lindsay’s earlier volume, _General Booth Enters Heaven_, are extraordinarily interesting books. Every mind which is truly alive to-day should know at least one of them. _Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty_, by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.] Almost simultaneously with _The Congo_ has appeared a prose volume by Mr. Lindsay, _Adventures while Preaching the Gospel of Beauty_. It is an account, in the form of a diary, of a walk through Missouri and Kansas, and into Colorado. Its value is almost purely personal. To anyone who is interested in Mr. Lindsay’s striking personality, this book will serve as a spiritual Baedeker. As literature its value is comparatively slight. It contains, however, one of his most striking poems, _The Kallyope Yell_, which appeared originally in _The Forum_. This alone is worth the price of the volume. EUNICE TIETJENS. Pumpernickel Philosophy _The Man of Genius_, by Herman Tuerck. [The Macmillan Company, New York.]