NEW PATHS VERSE PROSE . PICTURES Edited by C. W. BEAUMONT AND M. T. H. SADLER Decorated by ANNE ESTELLE RICE LONDON C. W. BEAUMONT 75 CHARING CROSS ROAD W.C.2 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE GAUDIER BRZESKA GERARD CHOWNE DIXON SCOTT A. NOEL SIMMONS C. H. SORLEY EDWARD THOMAS PELHAM WEBB and to all those gallant gentlemen who, but for having died in the service of their country, would have been pioneers along the new paths of literature and art VERSE CONTENTS FRONTISPIECE DESIGNED AND CUT ON WOOD By EDGARD TIJTGAT FRANCIS BICKLEY SOME TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOME RECENT BOOKS OF VERSE W. H. DAVIES Birds . . . . . . . . . That Day She Seized . . . . WALTER DE LA MARE Noahs Ark . . . . . . . The Tryst . . . . . . . . JOHN DRINKWATER Southampton Bells . . . . . Reality . . . . . . . . . WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Water . ., . . . . . . The Watch . . . . . . . The Fountain Pen . . . ., In Fifth Avenue . . . . . . Memory . . . . . . . . Song . . . . . . . ., RICHARD ALDINGTON The Blood of the Young Men . . Soliloquy . . . . . ., J. G. FLETCHER Peace, ., . . ., . The Red Gates . . ., . . PAGE F . S . FLINT JOHN FREEMAN D . H . LAWRENCE ROSE MACAULAY HAROLD MONRO J . C . SQUIRE WILFRED CHILDE GERALD CROW T . W . EARP JOHN HARVEY ALDOUS HUXLEY IRENE McLEOD ROBERT NICHOLS MAX PLOWMAN EDITH SITWELL Contents PAGE Oak . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3 Swan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Undying 32 Ten Oclock No More 35 Labour Battalion 37 39 Pic-Nic . . . . . . . . . . Baffled . . . . . . . . . . 40 4a From an Old House . . . . . 44 Under . Sonnet . . . . . . . . . . . 46 . 48 The Burden of London . . . . . 49 Sonnet I . . . . . 50 Sonnet I1 . . . . . . . . . 50 Villon . . . . . . . . . . Mayors Sunday . . . . . . . 5 52 Siren Island . . . . . . . . 53 Rain . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Reef . . . . . . . . . . 57 On the Bus . . . . . . . . 59 The Graveyard on the Hill . . . . 60 Immortality . . . . . . . . 61 Reply to an Imaginary Invitation . . 62 Spanish Folk Song . . . . . . 64 Broken Love . . . . . . . . 65 Weathercocks . . . . . . . . 66 OSBERT SITWELL SACHEVERELL SITWELL Contents PAGE Song of the Fauns. . . . . . 67 Pierrot at the War . . . . . . 69 Fragment from Sirens . . . . 70 W. J. TURNER Silence . . . . . . . . . . 72 The Dark Fire of Sorrow . . . . 73 SHERARD VINES Anastasis . . . . . . . . . 74 PROSE M. T. H. SADLER THE YOUNG NOVEL . . . . 75 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NOTE- WORTHY YOUNG NOVELS. . 86 PHILIP GUEDALLA Parti Card . . . . . . . . gj HUGH DESELINCOURT The Dream of Death-A Play . . . IOI PICTURES J. G. FLETCHER TENDENCIES IN PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH ART . . . . . . Ira AUGUSTUS JOHN Drawing . . . . . . . . . I 21 WALTER SICKERT Drawing . . . . . . . . . 1a3 H. GAUDIER BRZESKA Self-Portrait Drawing . . . . . 125 Weeping Figure Alabaster Statue- Early Work . . . . . . . . 127 JACOB EPSTEIN Head of W. H. Davies Bronze . . 129 MARK GERTLER Study for The Bathers Drawing 131 ANNE ESTELLE RICE Bridge Painting . . . . . . . 133 A. P. ALLINSON Scene for Lucia di Lammermoor- Last Act . . . . . . . . I35 Contents PAGE NINA HAMNETT Drawing . . . . . . . . I31 JACOB KRAMER The Day of Atonement Design for a Woodcut ., . . . . . . . I39 BERNARD MENINSKY Belgian Caf6 Painting . . . . 141 JOHN NASH An Italian Landscape Drawing . . 143 PAUL NASH Elms Drawing . . . . . . I45 RainDrawing . . . . . . 47 C. It. W. NEVINSON The Wave Lithograph ., . . . 149 Two Women Drawing ., . . . 151 MICHEL SEVIER The Kashmir Shawl Drawing . . . 153 ETHELBERT WHITE The Digger Etching . . . . . 155 WALTER BENINGTON Limehouse Hole Original Photograph 157 ERNEST COLLINGS Ivan Mestrovic with Exhibition Dates and Selected Bibliography . . . I59 IVAN MESTROVI The Descent from the Cross Wood Relief . . . . . . . . . . 161 p. I, paragraph 3. SOhfE IMAGIST POETS etc...