Continued from p. iv.

To form Local Centres and Reading Circles and encourage the intelligent reading of verse with due regard to emphasis and rhythm and the poet's meaning, and to study and discuss the art and mission of poetry.

To promote and hold private and public recitals of poetry.

To form sub-societies for the reading and study of the works of individual poets.

To publish such poems by new writers as the Council may decide, and to offer premiums for poetry and take such steps as may be deemed advisable from time to time to extend interest in poetry and to assist in bringing about a poetic renaissance."

To establish Lectureships and publish a Journal and celebrate and commemorate the birth and death days of poets and other literary anniversaries.

The ordinary Membership subscription is 7s. 6d., with an entrance fee of 2s. 6d. (The Journal of the Society-THE POETRY REVIEW-is supplied to members without further charge).

Honorary Members (persons eminent in literature or otherwise distinguished who sympathize with the Society, but are not able to take an active part in its work) and Vice-Presidents (Presidents of Centres and distinguished active members) pay a minimum membership subscription of one guinea per annum or a life membership fee of ten guineas.

The Society is intended to bind poetry readers and lovers together throughout the English-speaking world, forming a desirable freemasonry, with poetry-the first and best of all arts—as the connecting link.

By means of Local Centres membership is made active and effective, members meeting together under a President and Council for the reading and study of poetry and co-operating with Headquarters in the general work of the Society. A member of the Society is a member of the Centre most convenient for him to attend, and a member of any Centre is a member of the Society as a whole and may attend any Centre meetings anywhere on giving notice to the Secretary. This Centre system carries into effect the idea of a poetical freemasonry, a South African member visiting or going to reside in London or South Australia or wherever the Society has a branch being welcomed by and becoming a member of the local group.

Centres or individual members not formed into groups maintain regular communication with the Head Office, from which advice and direction may be obtained with respect to the formation, conduct and programme of Centre meetings, propaganda work, etc., and each Centre is expected to hold at least two public recitals per year, with a view to interesting the general public, and showing what an exquisite pleasure can be derived from the intelligent reading and speaking of verse.

The Society is the one body dealing with poetry as an artistic, ethical and cultural influence of the greatest importance, " redeeming from decay the visitations of the divinity in man," and seeks to bring mankind generally under its influence.

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THE PERILOUS LIGHT. By EVA GORE-BOOTH, author of "The Agate Lamp," "The One and the Many," etc.

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LAUGHS AND WHIFTS OF SONG. BY THEODORE MAYNARD. With
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THE WIND IN THE TEMPLE. By EDMUND JOHN, author of "The
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MACHIAVELLI, A STUDY IN STATECRAFT, by Mr John G. Vance, comes specially apropos at the present time, seeing the extent to which the rulers of modern Germany are imbued with the pernicious doctrines of the author of "The Prince."

Mr T. Rice Holmes, in his scholarly article IN DEFENCE OF ATTICUS, makes out a case for Cicero's much maligned friend Titus Pomponius.

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