No More Learning

Subscription rates, one year, $1. 50; single copy, 15 cents.
Edited by James E. Richardson, Charles Wharton Stork and Samuel McCoy. Copyright, 1916, by the editors, trading as CONTEMPORARY VERSE.
ja
By CLINTON SCOLLARD
ITALY IN ARMS AND
OTHER POEMS 75 CENTS
THE VALE OF SHADOWS 60 CENTS
If it be the duty of a poet to give voice of the conscience of his nation, Mr. Scollard has done his part in The Vale a] Shadows. In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty, worshipping and tending at her immemorial shrine.
Gomme and Marshall
2 East 29th Street New York
POEMS
"Love and nature, life, and b ts of the Orient diversify these panes; the songs are tuneful, often spiritual, always melodic and pleasing. — Detroit Free Press.
$I. 25
Houghton, Mifflin & Company 4 Park Street Boston
NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what literary critics say about Contemporary Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems. "
—New Orleans, Louisiana, Times-Picayune
" 'Contemporary Verse' is here, and, we hope, to stay. It came without a flourish—simply print ed some very good contributions. That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
"
— The Rochester Htrald, Rochester, New York
• :— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1. 50 a year
Address: 622 South Washington Square, Philadelphia
"The contents are of very good
quality indeed. "
— Current Opinion,
New York
"Each contribution is a gem. " —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal. "
—T. A. Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the contents are interesting. " —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination. . . . "
VERSE,
longer promise to supply certain issues. Sample copies can be supplied only at the full subscription price, fifteen cents.
that we can no
— Contemporary
Verse.
It would be difficult
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and Liberation $1. 50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go Lighting your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.