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Mr. Will H. Ogilvie:--"Canadians."

Mr. Barry Pain and the London Times:--"The Kaiser and God."

Miss Marjorie Pickthall and the London Times:--"Canada to England."

Canon H.D. Dawnsley and the Westminster Gazette:--"At St. Paul's, April 20, 1917."

Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond:--"A Song."

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross and the Poetry Review:--"The Death of Peace."

Mr. Robert Haven Schauffler:--"The White Comrade."

Mr. W. Snow and the Spectator:--"Oxford in War-Time."

Mrs. Grace Ellery Channing Stetson and the New York Tribune:--"Qui Vive?"

Mr. Rowland Thirlmere and the Poetry Review:--"Jimmy Doane."

Mrs. Ada Turrell and the Saturday Review:--"My Son."

Dr. Henry van Dyke and the London Times:--"Liberty Enlightening the World," and "Mare Liberum"; Dr. van Dyke and the Art World: "The Name of France."

Mr. Tertius van Dyke and the Spectator:--"Oxford Revisited in War-Time."

Mrs. Edith Wharton:--"Belgium," from King Albert's Book (Hearst's International Library Company).

Mr. George Edward Woodberry and the Boston Herald:--"On the Italian Front, MCMXVI"; Mr. Woodberry, the New York Times and the North American Review:--"Sonnets Written in the Fall of 1914."

The Athenaeum:--"A Cross in Flanders," by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

The Poetry Review:--"The Messines Road," by Captain J.E. Stewart; "-- But a Short Time to Live," by the late Sergeant Leslie Coulson.

The Spectator:--"The Challenge of the Guns," by Private A.N. Field.

The London Times:--"To Our Fallen" and "A Petition," by the late Lieutenant Robert Ernest Vernède.

The Westminster Gazette:--"Lines Written in Surrey, 1917," by George Herbert Clarke.

Messrs. Barse & Hopkins:--"Fleurette," by Robert W. Service.

The Cambridge University Press and Professor William R. Sorley:-- "Expectans Expectavi"; "'All the Hills and Vales Along,'" and "Two Sonnets," by the late Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley, from Marlborough and Other Poems.

Messrs. Chatto & Windus:--"Fulfilment" and "The Day's March," by Robert Nichols.

Messrs. Constable & Company:--"Pro Patria," "Thomas of the Light Heart," and "To Belgium in Exile," by Sir Owen Seaman, from War-Time; "To France" and "Requiescant," by Canon and Major Frederick George Scott, from In the Battle Silences.

Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company:--"To a Soldier in Hospital" (the Spectator); "Chaplain to the Forces" and "The Spires of Oxford" (Westminster Gazette), by Winifred M. Letts, from Hallowe'en, and Poems of the War; "A Chant of Love for England," by Helen Gray Cone, from A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems (published also by J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, London).

Lawrence J. Gomme:--"Italy in Arms," by Clinton Scollard, from Italy in Arms, and Other Poems.

Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company:--"To the Belgians"; "Men of Verdun"; "The Anvil"; "Edith Cavell"; "The Healers" and "For the Fallen," by Laurence Binyon, from The Cause (published also by Elkin Mathews, London, in The Anvil and The Winnowing Fan); "Headquarters," by Captain Gilbert Frankau, from A Song of the Guns; "Place de la Concorde" and "In War-Time," by Florence Earle Coates, from The Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates; "Harvest Moon" and "Harvest Moon, 1915," by Josephine Preston Peabody, from Harvest Moon; "The Mobilization in Brittany" and "The Journey," by Grace Fallow Norton, from Roads, and "Rheims Cathedral--1914," by Grace Hazard Conkling, from Afternoons of April.

John Lane:--"The Kaiser and Belgium," by the late Stephen Phillips.

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