The verses here published were written in France during the tragic months of August and September, 1914, and were then laid aside for more than a year, in the hope that the author might be able to improve them if he approached them somewhat as a stranger. They were several times revised at still later periods, a number of lines were omitted and a few added... Blue cloth, gilt lettering on fron

1887 graduate of Phillips academy, ambulancier, given the chevalier de legion of honer of france for his book and his work



RAYMOND WEEKS*

*Of New York City; Harvard, and University of Paris; Professor of Romance Languages at Columbia University; served on the Staff of the Field Service in France from July, 1917, to January, 1918.