THE Editor desires to express his cordial appreciation of the assistance rendered him in his undertaking by the officials of the British Museum (Mr. F. D. Sladen, in particular) and the Librarians of the University of Tennessee; Professor W. Macneile Dixon, of the University of Glasgow; Professor Kemp Smith, of Princeton University; Mr. Norreys Jephson O'Connor, of Harvard University; Mr. Francis Bickley, of London; Mr. Francis Parsons, of Hartford, Connecticut; and Miss Olympe D. Trabue, of Washington, D.C. He wishes also to acknowledge the courtesies generously extended by the following authors, authors' representatives, periodicals, and publishers in granting permission for the use of the poems indicated, rights in which are in each case reserved by the owner of the copyright:—
Dr. John Ernest Adamson and the Fortnightly Review:—"Resurrection."
The Right Honourable H. H. Asquith, Lady Cynthia Asquith and the Spectator:—"On a Troopship, 1915," and "A Flemish Village"; "The Volunteer" and "The Fallen Subaltern," from The Volunteer, and Other Poems (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London), by Lieutenant Herbert Asquith.
The Honourable Maurice Baring:—"In Memoriam A. H.", from Poems: 1914-1917 (Martin Seeker).
Dr. H. H. Bashford and the Nation (London):—"The Vision of Spring, 1916," from Songs out of School (Messrs. Constable & Company, London, and Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston).
Miss Maud Anna Bell and the London Times:—"From a Trench."
Mr. Hilaire Belloc and the New Witness:—"Sedan."
Lieutenant William Rose Benét and the Century Magazine:—"Front Line."
Captain Paul Bewsher and the London Graphic:—"Searchlights"; from The Bombing of Bruges (Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton).
Mr. Francis Bickley and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Players."
Mr. Laurence Binyon:—"To the Belgians", "Men of Verdun", "The Anvil", "The Healers" and "For the Fallen," from The Anvil and The Winnowing Fan (Elkin Mathews, London); Mr. Binyon and the New York Times:—"The New World;" Mr. Binyon and the Atlantic Monthly:—"Oxford in War Time," from The New World (Elkin Mathews, London).
Mr. F. W. Bourdillon:—"The Heart-Cry"; Mr. Bourdillon and the Spectator:—"The Call"; "The Debt Unpayable."
Dr. Gamaliel Bradford and the Nation (New York):—"Napoleon."
Mr. Robert Bridges and the London Times:—"The Chivalry of the Sea," "Lord Kitchener," "Trafalgar Square" and "To the United States of America."
Mr. Charles William Brodribb and the Times:—"Expeditional."
Mr. Dana Burnet and the New York Evening Sun:—"The Battle of Liège" and "Napoleon's Tomb."
Miss Amelia Josephine Burr:—"Kitchener's March," from Life and Living (Messrs. George H. Doran Company, New York).
Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt and Scribner's Magazine:—"Pierrot at War."
Miss Margaretta Byrde and the Spectator:—"America at St. Paul's."
Mrs. Wilfred Campbell and The Musson Book Company (Toronto):—"Langemarck" and "Where Kitchener Sleeps," by the late Wilfred Campbell.
Mr. Bliss Carman:—"The War Cry of the Eagles."
Lieutenant Ronald Lewis Carton:—"Hereafter" and "Réveillé," from Steel and Flowers (Elkin Mathews, London).
Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers and Punch:—"Guns of Verdun," "Infantry" and "The Steeple."
Mrs. Grace Ellery-Channing-Stetson and the New York Tribune:—"Flower-Beds in the Tuileries."
Mr. John Jay Chapman and Vanity Fair:—"To a Dog."
The late Cecil Chesterton and the New Witness:—"France."
Mr. Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the New Witness:—"The Ballad of St. Barbara"; Mr. Chesterton and Messrs. Burns & Gates:—"The Wife of Flanders," from Poems (published also by the John Lane Company, New York).
Mr. Reginald McIntosh Cleveland and the New York Times:—"Destroyers off Jutland."
Mrs. Florence Earle Coates:—"Place de la Concorde," from The Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston); "Serbia" and "Captain Guynemer."
Miss Helen Gray Cone and Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, London:—"A Chant of Love for England," from A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems (published also by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York); Miss Cone and the New York Times:—"To Belgium."
Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling:—"Rheims Cathedral—1914," from Afternoons of April (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston); "Letter to an Aviator in France."
Lieutenant-Commander N. M. F. Corbett and Land and Water:—"The Auxiliary Cruiser."
Mr. F. Raymond Coulson and Mr. Erskine Macdonald: "The Rainbow," and "When I Come Home," by Sergeant Leslie Coulson, from From an Outpost (Erskine Macdonald).
Mr. W. L. Courtney and the Fortnightly Review:—"To Our Dead."
Miss Charlotte Holmes Crawford and Scribner's Magazine:—"Vive la France!"
Lord Crewe and the Harrovian:—"A Harrow Grave in Flanders."
Mr. Moray Dalton and the Spectator:—"To Italy" and "Rupert Brooke"; Mr. Dalton and the West Sussex Gazette:—"To Some Who Have Fallen."
Mrs. Olive Tilford Dargan and the Atlantic Monthly:—" 'It Will Be a Hard Winter.' "
Mr. G. D. Day: "North Sea," from Poems and Rhymes, by Flight-Commander Jeffery Day, R.N.A.S. (Sidgwick & Jackson).
Lord Desborough and the London Times:—"Into Battle," by the late Captain Julian Grenfell.
Mr. Walter de la Mare and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Fool Rings his Bells."
Captain Edward de Stein and the London Times:—"To a Skylark behind Our Trenches," from The Poets in Picardy (John Murray, London).
Professor W. Macneile Dixon and the London Times:—"To Fellow Travellers in Greece."
Mr. Austin Dobson:—"When There is Peace" and "Clean Hands."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the London Times:—"The Guns in Sussex" and "The Guards Came Through." (John Murray).
Rev. W. H. Draper and the Spectator:—"The Red Christmas," from Poems of the Love of England (Messrs. Chatto & Windus).
Mr. John Drinkwater and Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson:—"Riddles, R.F.C." (the Saturday Review), "Of Greatham," and "We Willed It Not." (the Sphere).
Lord Dunsany and the Saturday Review:—"Songs from an Evil Wood."
Miss Gabrielle Elliot and the New York Times:—"Pierrot Goes to War."
Mrs. Theodosia Garrison Faulks and Good Housekeeping:—"These Shall Prevail."
Mrs. Sara Teasdale Filsinger and Harper's Magazine:—" 'There Will Come Soft Rains' "; "Spring in War-Time," from Rivers to the Sea (The Macmillan Company).
Dr. John H. Finley and the Yale Review:—"The Valleys of the Blue Shrouds." Dr. Finley and the Atlantic Monthly:—"The Road to Dieppe."
Professor O. W. Firkins and the Nation (New York):—"To America in War Time."
Mr. John Gould Fletcher and the Century Magazine:—"The Last Rally"; Mr. Fletcher and the New Republic:—"Channel Sunset."
Mrs. M. Forrest and the Spectator:—"The Heroes."
Captain Gilbert Frankau:—"Headquarters," "Ammunition Column" and "The Voice of the Guns," from The Guns (Messrs. Chatto & Windus, London); and A Song of the Guns (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston); and "Mother and Mate," from The Other Side and Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, New York).
Mr. John Freeman and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Return"; Mr. Freeman and Messrs. Selwyn & Blount, London:—"Sweet England" and "The Stars in their Courses," from Presage of Victory and Other Poems of the Time.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. Campbell Galbraith and the Westminster Gazette:—"Red Poppies in the Corn."
Mr. John Galsworthy and the Westminster Gazette:—"England to Free Men"; Mr. Galsworthy and the London Chronicle:—"The Soldier Speaks"; Mr. Galsworthy and the Nation (London):—"Valley of the Shadow," from A Sheaf (William Heinemann, London, and Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).
Mrs. John W. Garvin ("Katherine Hale"), the Toronto Globe, and William Briggs, Toronto:—"Grey Knitting."
Lady Glenconner: "Home Thoughts from Laventie" (the London Times), "Reincarnation" and "Light after Darkness," from Worple Flit (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford), by the late Lieutenant E. Wyndham Tennant.
Mr. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and the Fortnightly Review:—"Rupert Brooke," from Battle and Other Poems (The Macmillan Company): "Lament" and "The Ragged Stone," from Hill-Tracks (The Macmillan Company); "Retreat," and "Between the Lines" (The Macmillan Company).
Colonel Lord Gorell and the Contemporary Review:—"Ypres," from Days of Destiny (Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company).
Mr. Robert Grant and the Nation (New York):—"The Superman."
Captain Robert Graves and the Nation (London):—"The Last Post," from Fairies and Fusiliers (William Heinemann, London).
Mr. Herman Hagedorn and the Century Magazine:—"Resurrection."
Captain James Norman Hall and the Spectator:—"The Cricketers of Flanders"; Captain Hall and the Century Magazine:—"A Finger and a Huge, Thick Thumb."
Mr. Thomas Hardy and the Fortnightly Review:—"Before Marching, and After"; Mr. Hardy and the London Times:—"Men Who March Away" and "Then and Now," from Satires of Circ*mstance (Macmillan & Company); Mr. Hardy and the Saturday Review:—"In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations,'" from Moments of Vision (Messsrs. Macmillan & Company).
Miss Isabel Westcott Harper and Chambers' Journal:—"Highland Night, 1715, 1815, 1915."
Lieutenant F. W. Harvey:—"The Bugler," from Gloucester Friends (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London).
Dr. Henry Head and the Yale Review:—"Destroyers," from Destroyers and Other Verses (Oxford University Press).
Mr. John Helston:—"Advance, America!"; Mr. Helston and the English Review:—"Kitchener."
Mr. Aubrey Herbert ("Ben Kendim") and the Spectator:—"The New Zealander."
Miss Ethel M. Hewitt and Harper's Magazine:—"Bois Étoilé."
Mr. Maurice Hewlett:—"In the Trenches," from Sing-Songs of the War (The Poetry Bookshop; "The Fourth of July, 1776."
Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson and the New Witness:—"High Summer"; Mrs. Hinkson and the Nation (London):—"New Heaven"; "After Jutland," "The Mother," and "At Parting," from Late Songs (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson); "To the Others."
Mr. John Hogben and the Spectator:—"Somewhere in France."
Miss Norah M. Holland:—"Captains Adventurous" (Messrs. J. M. Dent & Company, London and Toronto).
Captain W. Kersley Holmes and the Glasgow News:—"Fallen" and "Horse-Bathing Parade," from More Ballads of Field and Billet (Alexander Gardner, Paisley).
Mr. Claude Houghton and the New Witness:—"To the Fallen," from The Phantom Host (Elkin Mathews, London).
Mr. William Dean Howells and the North American Review:—"The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible."
Lady Hutchinson:—"Sonnets," by the late Lieutenant Henry William Hutchinson.
Miss Mildred Huxley and the Spectator:—"Subalterns" and "To my Godson."
Lady Jenkins:—"Crusaders" and "Happy Warriors," from Forlorn Adventurers (Sidgwick & Jackson).
Mr. Herbert Kaufman:—"The Hell-Gate of Soissons," from The Hell-Gate of Soissons and Other Poems (T. Fisher Unwin, Limited, London; published also by the Macmillan Company, New York).
Mr. Harry Kemp and Munsey's Magazine:—"The New Ally."
Dr. Guy Kendall and the Spectator:—"Mopsus" and "To my Pupils, Gone before their Day," from The Call and Other Poems (Messrs. Chapman & Hall).
Mrs. Mary S. Kettle:—"A Song of the Irish Armies," and "To My Daughter Betty," from Poems and Parodies (London: Duckworth. Dublin: The Talbot Press).
Mr. Rudyard Kipling:—"For All We Have and Are," and "The Choice," from The Years Between (Methuen).
Captain James H. Knight-Adkin and the Spectator:—"No Man's Land" and "On Les Aura!"
Miss Kathleen Knox and Punch:—"A Lost Land."
Lieutenant Joseph Lee and the Spectator:—"German Prisoners" and "Back to London," from Work-a-Day Warriors (John Murray).
Mr. Richard le Gallienne:—"After the War."
Miss Winifred M. Letts and the Spectator:—"To a Soldier in Hospital"; Miss Letts and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Spires of Oxford," "Chaplain to the Forces," and "The Call to Arms in Our Street," from Hallowe'en, and Poems of the War (John Murray, London); The Spires of Oxford and Other Poems (E. P. Dutton & Company, New York); Miss Letts and the Yale Review:—"The Connaught Rangers."
Mr. Vachel Lindsay:—"Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," from The Congo and Other Poems (The Macmillan Company); "Niagara," from The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems (The Macmillan Company).
Miss Amy Lowell and Scribner's Magazine:—"Convalescence."
Mr. E. V. Lucas and the Sphere:—"The Debt."
Rev. W. T. Lyon:—"Lines Written in a Fire-Trench" and "Easter at Ypres, 1915," by the late W. S. S. Lyon, from Easter at Ypres, 1915, and Other Poems (Messrs. James Maclehose & Sons, Glasgow).
Mr. Patrick MacGill:—"Before the Charge" and "In the Morning," from Soldier Songs (Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., London, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York).
Mrs. Isabel Ecclestone Mackay and the Canadian Magazine:—"The Recruit."
Mr. Percy MacKaye:—"Christmas, 1915," from Poems and Plays (The Macmillan Company); "Magna Carta," from The Present Hour (The Macmillan Company.)
Lieutenant Frederic Manning:—"The Sign," "The Trenches," "The Face" and "Transport," from Eidola (John Murray, London, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York).
Mrs. Josephine Preston Peabody Marks:—"Harvest Moon," and "Harvest Moon, 1916," from Harvest Moon (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company.)
Mr. Edward Marsh, literary executor of the late Lieutenant Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier," "The Dead," "Peace" and "Safety," from 1914, and Other Poems (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, and Messrs. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto); The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (The John Lane Company, New York).
Mr. John Masefield and Contemporary Verse:—"The Choice." Mr. Masefield and the Macmillan Company: "The Island of Skyros."
Mrs. David McCrae and Dr. Thomas McCrae:—"In Flanders Fields" (Punch) and "The Anxious Dead" (the Spectator), from In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, London).
Mr. J. Edgar Middleton:—"Off Heligoland," From Sea Dogs and Men-at-Arms (Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, and Messrs. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto).
Mrs. Stuart Moore ("Evelyn Underhill") and the Westminster Gazette:—"Non-Combatants," from Immanence (Messrs. J. M. Dent & Company, London, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York).
Lieutenant Charles Langbridge Morgan and the Westminster Gazette:—"To America."
Mr. Christopher Morley:—"To the Oxford Men in the War," from Songs for a Little House (The George H. Doran Company).
Mr. Neil Munro and Blackwood's Magazine:—"Romance," "Pipes in Arras," and "Lochaber No more!"
Miss A. E. Murray and the Nation (London):—"The Dead."
Captain A. T. Nankivell and the Westminster Gazette:—"The House of Death."
Sir Henry Newbolt:—"The Vigil"; "The War Films"; "The Toy Band"; "A Letter from the Front"; "The Song of the Guns at Sea," and "Hic Jacet Qui in Hoc Saeculo Militavit."
Lieutenant Robert Nichols:—"Comrades: An Episode," "Fulfilment" and "The Day's March," from Ardours and Endurances (Messrs. Chatto & Windus, London, and the Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York).
Miss Grace Fallow Norton:—"The Mobilization in Brittany," and "The Journey," from Roads (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston).
Mr. Alfred Noyes:—"Wireless" and "The 'Vindictive' " (The Frederick A. Stokes Company); "The Searchlights" (London Times), "Kilmeny" and "Princeton, May, 1917"; New Poems (Blackwood).
Mr. Edward J. O'Brien and the Century Magazine:—"Song."
Mr. Norreys Jephson O'Conor:—"Moira's Keening"; Mr. O'Conor and Contemporary Verse:—"For Francis Ledwidge."
Mr. Will H. Ogilvie and the Spectator:—"Queenslanders" (Messrs. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, Australia); Mr. Ogilvie and Country Life:—"Canadians."
Rev. Everard Owen:—"Ypres Tower, Rye"; Mr. Owen and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson:—"Three Hills" (London Times), from Three Hills and Other Poems.
Mr. Barry Pain and the London Times:—"The Kaiser and God"; Mr. Pain and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Army of the Dead."
Mr. Eden Phillpotts:—"Verdun," "Song of the Red Cross," "In Gallipoli," "To Rupert Brooke," and "Réveillé," from Plain Song, 1914–1916 (William Heinemann, London, and The Macmillan Company, New York).
Mrs. Marjorie L. C. Pickthall:—"When It is Finished"; Mrs. Pickthall and the London Times:—"Canada to England."
Mrs. Beatrice W. Ravenel and the Atlantic Monthly:—"Missing."
Rev. Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley:—"Going to the Front."
Rev. G. E. Rees, and the Westminster Gazette:—"Telling the Bees."
Mr. Cecil Roberts and the Poetry Review:—"Watchmen of the Night."
Major Charles G. D. Roberts: "Cambrai and Marne," from New Poems, by Major Charles G. D. Roberts (Constable).
Mr. Morley Roberts and the Westminster Gazette:—"To America" and "The Merchantmen," from War Lyrics (Messrs. Selwyn & Blount, London).
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross:—"The Death of Peace" and "Apocalypse" (The Poetry Review).
Mr. George W. Russell ("A. E.") and the London Times:—"Gods of War" and "Shadows and Lights"; Mr. Russell and Messrs. Macmillan & Company:—"The Last Hero."
Captain Siegfried Sassoon (by Lieutenant Robert Nichols):—"Troops" and "Trench Duty," from Counter-Attack and Other Poems (William Heinemann, London, and Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York).
Lieutenant Robert Haven Schauffler:—"The White Comrade" and "After Action."
Mr. Clinton Scollard:—"Italy in Arms," from Italy in Arms, and Other Poems (Lawrence J. Gomme, New York); "A Summer Morning," from Let the Flag Wave (Messrs. James T. White & Company, New York).
Mr. Duncan Campbell Scott:—"To a Canadian Lad Killed in the War," from Lundy's Lane and Other Poems (Messrs. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, and the George H. Doran Company, New York); Mr. Scott and Scribner's Magazine:—"To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for his Country in France."
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick George Scott:—"The Silent Toast" (Messrs. Constable & Company, London).
Sir Owen Seaman, Punch, and Messrs. Constable & Company:—"Thomas of the Light Heart," and "To Belgium in Exile," from War-Time; Sir Owen Seaman and Punch:—"To the Memory of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts."
Mr. Robert W. Service: "The Volunteer," "Fleurette," "Faith," and "The Song of the Pacifist," from The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (Fisher Unwin).
Captain William G. Shakespeare:—"The Cathedral," from Ypres and Other Poems (Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, London).
Professor Odell Shepard:—"The Hidden Weaver," from A Lonely Flute (Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company).
Professor Stuart P. Sherman and the Nation (New York):—"Kaiser and Councillor."
Mr. Edward Shillito and the London Chronicle:—"Invalided."
Miss C. Fox Smith:—"Farewell to Anzac" (the Spectator) and "St. George of England," from Fighting Men (Elkin Mathews, London); Miss Smith and the Spectator:—"British Merchant Service," from The Naval Crown (Elkin Mathews); Miss Smith and Punch:—"The North Sea Ground." By permission also of the George H. Doran Company, New York.
Mr. W. Snow and the Oxford Magazine—"The Ghosts of Oxford."
Professor William R. Sorley:—"Expectans Expectavi." "All the Hills and Vales Along," "Two Sonnets," and "The Dead," by the late Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley, from Marlborough and Other Poems (The Cambridge University Press).
Mr. George Sterling and the Delineator:—"Henri."
Rev. William G. Thayer and the Atlantic Monthly:—"The Dead," by Lieutenant Sigourney Thayer.
Miss Edith M. Thomas and Harper's Magazine:—"The Red Cross Nurse."
The late Professor Thomas Trotter:—"The Poplars," and "A Kiss," by the late Bernard Freeman Trotter, from A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and of Peace (McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, and the George H. Doran Company, New York).
Mrs. Ada Tyrrell and the Saturday Review:—"My Son."
Dr. Henry van Dyke and Scribner's Magazine:—"The Peaceful Warrior."
Mr. Tertius van Dyke and the Spectator:—"Oxford Revisited in War-Time."
Mrs. Robert E. Vernède, the London Times, and William Heinemann, London:—"To our Fallen" and "A Petition," by the late Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.
Mr. John Walker ("Rowland Thirlmere"):—"Richmond Park," from Diogenes at Athens and Other Poems (Messrs. Selwyn & Blount, London); "Jimmy Doane" (The Poetry Review) and "Gassed."
Mrs. G. O. Warren:—"The Spectral Army," "Peace," and "The Endless Army," from Trackless Regions (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, and Messrs. Longmans, Green & Company, New York); Mrs. Warren and the Spectator:—"Fulfilment."
Sir William Watson:—"The Battle of the Bight," from The Man Who Saw, and Other Poems Arising out of the War (John Murray, London, and Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York).
Mrs. Edith Wharton, the Century Magazine, and Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons:—"Battle Sleep"; Mrs. Wharton:—"Belgium," from King Albert's Book (Hearst's International Library Company).
Miss Margaret Widdemer:—"Homes," from The Old Road to Paradise (Messrs. Henry Holt & Company).
Mrs. Fredeline Wilson, the Westminster Gazette, and Mr. Harold Monro, The Poetry Bookshop, London:—"Magpies in Picardy" and "Sportsmen in Paradise," by the late Captain T. P. Cameron Wilson.
Miss Margaret Adelaide Wilson and the Yale Review:—"Gervais."
Miss Marjorie Wilson and the Spectator:—"To Tony, Aged 3"; Miss Wilson and the Westminster Gazette:—"The Devonshire Mother."
Lieutenant E. Armine Wodehouse and the Fortnightly Review:—"Before Ginchy"; "Next Morning," from On Leave (Elkin Mathews, London).
Dr. George Edward Woodberry and the Boston Herald:—"On the Italian Front, MCMXVI"; Dr. Woodberry, the New York Times and the North American Review:—"Sonnets Written in the Autumn of 1914"; Dr. Woodberry and the Atlantic Monthly:—"To the Wingless Victory"; Dr. Woodberry and the North American Review:—"Roumania"; Dr. Woodberry and Scribner's Magazine:—"Edith Cavell."
Mrs. Margaret L. Woods and the Fortnightly Review:—"The First Battle of Ypres."
Lieutenant-Commander E. Hilton Young and the Cornhill Magazine:—"Memories."
The Canadian Magazine:—"Ruins," by George Herbert Clarke.
The Spectator:—"Christ in Flanders," by Mrs. C. T. Whitmell; "To my Brother," by the late Flight-Commander Miles Jeffrey Game Day; and "The Challenge of the Guns," by Private A. N. Field.
The London Times:—"Outward Bound," by the late Lieutenant Nowell Oxland.
The Westminster Gazette:—"Lines Written in Surrey, 1917," by George Herbert Clarke.
Messrs. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia: "England Yet," by Henry Lawson, from Selected Poems.
The Cambridge Press: "Battle Hymn," from Poems, by Lieut. Donald F. Goold Johnson.
Messrs. Cassell & Company, London, and the Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York:—"A Confession of Faith," by Captain James Sprent, from The Anzac Book (Anzac Book Committee).
Messrs. Constable & Company:—"I have a Rendezvous with Death," and "Champagne, 1914-15," by the late Alan Seeger, from Poems (published also by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).
The George H. Doran Company, New York:—"Kings" and "The New School," from Main Street and Other Poems, by the late Sergeant Joyce Kilmer.
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton: "Prayer of a Soldier in France," and "The Peacemaker," by Joyce Kilmer, from Joyce Kilmer: Poems, Essays and Letters. "War," and "A Mother Understands," from Rough Rhymes of a Padre, and "Solomon in All His Glory," from More Rough Rhymes of a Padre, by G. A. Studdert Kennedy, M.C., C.F. ("Woodbine Willie"). "The Name of France," by Henry Van Dyke, from The Red Flower.
Herbert Jenkins, Limited, London:—"Evening in England," "The Place," "Evening Clouds," "Autumn Evening in Serbia," and "The Homecoming of the Sheep," from Songs of Peace, by the late Lance-corporal Francis Ledwidge, edited by Lord Dunsany.
Mr. John Lane:—"The Kaiser and Belgium," by the late Stephen Phillips. "In Memoriam" and "Oxford from the Trenches," from A Highland Regiment, by Lieut. E. A. Mackintosh.
Messrs. Macmillan & Company:—"Australia to England," by Archibald T. Strong, from Sonnets of the Empire.
Mr. Erskine Macdonald: "A Lament for the Dead," by Lieut. Walter L. Wilkinson, from More Songs by the Fighting Men. "Out of the Conflict," by Alberta Vickridge, V.A.D., from The Sea Gazer.
Mr. Elkin Mathews: "England," and "Burn up the World," from The Challenge, by Lieut. Leonard Van Noppen, U.S.A.
Mr. John Murray and the New Witness:—"God's Hills," by the late Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne").
Mr. John Murray:—"Before Action" and "Back to Rest," from Verse and Prose, by W. Noel Hodgson.
The Princeton University Press:—"To France," by Herbert Jones, from A Book of Princeton Verse.
Messrs. Tyrell's, Limited, Sydney, Australia: "Song of the Dardanelles," and "Fighting Hard," by Henry Lawson, from My Army, O, My Army.
