In Colors of the West by Glenn Ward Dresbach

Holt and Company.

Few can write of mountains; they are too tremendous.

Glenn Ward Dresbach does it very well, and the book

would be worth while if only for the first group entitled

In Western Mountains. Deserts and prairies and woods

are done skillfully, also some stark, striking caricatures,

making the book well worth having, though its effective-

ness is somewhat lessened by the inclusion of weaker

lyrics.

NOTES

From Harriet Monroe in Europe, comes the following note on the

death of two English poets:

Herbert Trench, the well known English poet who died at Boulogne,

in June, after a long residence near Florence, was one of Portry's con-

tributors. His fine ode, Song of the Vine, in England, was published

in the number for August, 1918.

Mr. Trench, who was born in 1865, was the author of Apollo and the

Seaman (1907), Lyrics and Narrative Poems (1911), Ode from Italy in

Time of War and other war poems (1915-17), and Napoleon a Play

(1918). For some years around 1910, he was director of the Haymarket

Theatre in London, when his staging of King Lear, The Bluebird and

other plays led the theatric art of the time.

That Mr. Trench was an enthusiastic friend of Porrry as well as a

contributor, is proved by a letter from him which was printed in

Feb., 1919. We quote a few paragraphs in grateful remembrance of

a fine poet and a distinguished man. He said:

Dear Editor: I resent any attacks made in England on your exquisite

and ably edited magazine-Poerry of Chicago. It is full of daring and

ovely experiment and achievement.