BY GEOFFREY HOWARD Disease, disaster, and the death of friends Want, and the sudden shipwreck of great aims: The Love that falls upon a spear and ends; The Grief like hissing water cast on flames: These blows, these sharp defeats, these onsets fierce, May leave us neither bitter, nor subdued; May dint indeed and, dinting, fail to pierce Man's common faith, his natural fortitude. It is the dear changed thing that lingers on It is Love's first, half-warm, perfunctory kiss; It is the Hope that, with all summer gone, Breaks into late and futile bud't is this, "T is this that gives the sting! that sends the dart To wriggle through the harness to the heart! The New Witness LA VIE CÉLÉBRALE BY ROBIN FLOWER I am alone, alone, Eternal thought in me Puts on the dress of time And builds a stage to mime Its listless tragedy. And in that dress of time And on that stage of space I place, change, and replace. Life to a willful rime. ON AN ENGLISH REPRINT OF THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY BY ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Dew from the mountains of morn distilled on the shores of the sunset; Gleams of the glory of Greece, gilding our ultimate clime; Slow, sweet pipings of Pan, quick blasts of Athenian onset; Tears for the mighty dead coursing in cadence sublime. Flashes of fiery love, fond glimpses of family faces; Groans of human despair, hymns of celestial care; Clashes of fate and change, glad flights of the Fauns and the Graces; Glorious, laughter-lit jewels of wisdom and wit. The Bookman Living Age subscribers are requested to remember that the number bearing date any given Saturday is mailed on the Tuesday pres ceding. To avoid disappointment and to allow time for correcting the mailing list, any changes of address should reach the publishers at least nine days prior to the date of the number which is to be sent to the new address. Subscribers are requested to send a new notice every time that a change of ad dress is desired. $5,000,000.00 32,074,778.15 18,170,745.46 8,904,032.69 13,904,032.69 174,703,814.16 Surplus for Policy-Holders NOTE-The Security Valuations on which this Statement WM. B. CLARK, President THE LIVING AGE Founded by E. LITTELL in 1844 NO. 3907 MAY 24, 1919 A VISIT TO FIUME BY JOSEPH GALTIER ON leaving Venice and just a little after Mestre, which suffered greatly from aerial bombardments, one finds the lamentable traces of the war: there are to be seen deep shell-holes, broken bridges, disemboweled houses, and ruined bell towers; but it is on arriving at the Carso that the work of destruction is accentuated. Monfalcone rears its desolate ruins, the station is demolished, the factories are unroofed. We know only too well such landscapes in France. That which characterizes this one in particular is the gray mass of the cliffs of the Carso, bare, without other vegetation than hedges of barbed wire, without other paths than the little roads of the trenches in those places in which a little earth permits such a defense. The ensemble of this region is one of savage monotony and crushing sadness. The springtime smile of the blue sea, which fringes with silver the flat and curved shore of the gulf, alone tempers this rude impression. And, when, finally, one sees the castle of Miramar at the end Trieste is still in the full joy of its of the crescent of the peninsula and be- self far away and in a fa and Hungary yond, in a haze of golden silver, the imposing conglomeration of Trieste, a kind of relief seizes upon the heart. VOL. 14-NO. 709 do not mean to ་ང་ privileged situation of the air of nor The Italians of Fiume accepted contrary ittle the Croat domination that the |