_The New Poetry_ SWORD BLADES _and_ POPPY SEED _By_ AMY LOWELL Author of “A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS,” Etc. _In “The Boston Herald” Josephine Preston Peabody writes of this unusual book_: “First, last and all inclusive in Miss Amy Lowell’s poetic equipment is vitality enough to float the work of half a score of minor poets.... Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce ... this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable.... A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out ... personally I cannot see that Miss Lowell’s use of unrhymed vers libre has been surpassed in English. This breadth and ardor run through the whole fabric of the subject matter.... Here is the fairly Dionysiac revelry of a tireless workman. With an honesty as whole as anything in literature she hails any and all experience as stuff for poetry. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind.” _Price $1.25 net. At all bookstores._ PUBLISHED BY 64-66 5th Avenue NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY By Paul Claudel THE EAST I KNOW _Translated into English by_ TERESEA FRANCES _and_ WILLIAM ROSE BENÉT. Yale University Press 109 Elm Street NEW HAVEN, CONN. 225 Fifth Ave. NEW YORK CITY Paul Claudel was for many years in the French Government Service in Cochin, China. “The East I Know” is a translation into English of his “La Connaissance de l’Est.” It is a series of word pictures of life in the Far East written by a poet whose individuality and originality are bound to make a profound impression on American as they have already done on Continental readers. The translators have captured with complete success the author’s exquisitely delicate feeling for words which give the color and soul of the East with poetic modulation yet unmistakable truthfulness. This is the first of M. Claudel’s work to appear in English and is expressly authorized by him. _8vo. Cloth binding. 199 pages. Price $1.50 net postpaid._ By William Rose Benét THE FALCONER OF GOD AND OTHER POEMS