DRUM BEATS.
By Kendall Banning, '02. Kaleidograph Press, Dallas, Texas. $1.50. p. 82.
Richard LeGallienne opens his foreword to Drum Beats by saying that "The poetry of Kendall Banning is of a kind that has been out of fashion for some time." He likes that kind of poetry. If you do, you will enjoy this volume. There is no attempt to break with literary tradition nor to hide derivation. The verses are frankly those of an occasional singer who likes a lilting song and the old themes of love and death and heroism. The lines come pleasantly and the verse patterns skilfully. It is poetry without intellectual pretension and achieved in terms of pure song.
John Hardham '36 is the author of an article The Hitchcock Clinic which appears in the March issue of the GammaAlpha Record. Another article by the same author in the same issue of this Magazine is entitled The Dartmouth Medical School.
Edwin O. Grover '94 is the editor of From Friend to Friend and From Me toYou in the Good Cheer Series published by the Wise-Parslow Company.
America's March toward Democracy;History of American Life: Political andSocial, by Harold Ordway Rugg 'OB has been published by Ginn a?id Company of Boston. This is a revision of the author's A History of American Government andCulture. The character of the content in this revision has been brought up to date and the outstanding features have been simplified.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1936and Yearbook of American Poetry contains a poem by Alexander Laing '25 entitled Adventurer: Lexington Avenue Express.
Shaker Furniture, the Craftsmanship ofan American Communal Sect, by Edward D. Andrews and Faith Andrews has been published by the Yale University Press. This volume contains a preface by Homer Eaton Keyes '00.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1936and Yearbook of American Poetry just published by the Poetry Digest Association in New York contains a poem And Be atPeace by Kimball Flaccus '33. Mr. Flaccus has another poem in Thomas Moult's BestPoems of 1936 published by HarcourtBrace entitled Islanders.
There appears in the October 1936 issue of New York History published quarterly by the New York State Historical Association, an article by Stanley C. Smoyer 34 entitled Indians as Allies in the Intercolonial Wars. This article embodies the revision of a paper by Mr. Smoyer which was originally written while a member of the honors group in American Colonial History at Dartmouth College. The author is now completing the study of law at the University of Michigan.
Harold W. Holt '17 is the author of an article in the April number of the University of Chicago Law Review entitled The Federal Interpleader Act and Conflict of Laics in Garnishment."
