In making selection, availability for recitation has been considered. There is no better way to stir the mind or fix the memory than by spoken words of beauty in rhythmic cadence, especially in schools. It is hoped they will be effective in such uses.
Readers will find in the captain notes many helpful sidelights upon topics and personalities. These will commend themselves for their own sake.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT _Vachel Lindsay_ 144
AMBULANCE DRIVER’S PRAYER, AN _Chaplain Thomas F. Coakley_ 74
AMERICAN CREED, AN _Everard Jack Appleton_ 57
ANXIOUS ANTHEMIST, THE _Guy Forrester Lee_ 169
ANXIOUS DEAD, THE _Lieut. Col. John McCrae_ 109
AS THE TRUCKS GO ROLLIN’ BY _Lieut. L. W. Suckert_ 26
BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD _Edgar A. Guest_ 29
BEFORE ACTION _Lieut. William Noel Hodgson_ 13
BLIGHTY _Lieut. Siegfried Sassoon, M. C._ 121
BLUE AND THE GRAY IN FRANCE _George M. Mayo_ 41
BRITISH ARMY OF 1914, THE _Alfred W. Pollard_ 119
BUT A SHORT TIME TO LIVE _Sergt. Leslie Coulson_ 103
CRIMSON CROSS, THE _Elizabeth Brown Du Bridge_ 48
CROSS AND THE FLAG, THE _William Henry, Cardinal O’Connell_ 45
CRUTCHES’ TUNE, THE _Elizabeth R. Stoner_ 108
EASTER-EGGS _Reginald Wright Kauffman_ 89
EPITAPH FOR THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER _Annette Kohn_ 202
FRANCE _Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson_ 93
FRENCH IN THE TRENCHES _William J. Robinson_ 19
GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD, THE _Norah M. Holland_ 115
GRAVES OF GALLIPOLI, THE _L. L. (A. N. Z. A. C.)_ 27
GREAT ADVENTURE, THE _Major Kendall Banning_ 68
I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH _Alan Seeger_ 99
IN FLANDERS’ FIELDS _Lieut. Col. John McCrae_ 101
IN THE FRONT-LINE DESKS _Lieut. Elmer Franklin Powell_ 143
JOHN DOE--BUCK PRIVATE _Allan P. Thomson_ 127
KID HAS GONE TO THE COLORS _William Herschell_ 23
LET THERE BE LIGHT! _Ruth Wright Kauffman_ 196
LITTLE GRIMY-FINGERED GIRL, A _Lee Wilson Dodd_ 43
LITTLE HOME PAPER, THE _Charles Hanson Towne_ 15
LITTLE TOWN IN SENEGAL, A _Will Thompson_ 42
MEN OF THE BLOOD AND MIRE _Daniel M. Henderson_ 160
MIKE DILLON, DOUGHBOY _Lieut. John Pierre Roche_ 61
NIGHTINGALES OF FLANDERS, THE _Grace Hazard Conkling_ 50
NINETEEN-SEVENTEEN _Susan Hooker Whitman_ 85
NO MAN’S LAND _Capt. James H. Knight-Adkin_ 16
NOT WITH VAIN TEARS _Lieut. Rupert Brooke_ 102
OLD GANG ON THE CORNER, THE _William Herschell_ 64