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...Alan Seeger...
Company D.--Captain, D. C. Seeger, 2nd.; 1st Lieutenant, C. F. Batchelder; 2nd Lieutenant, W. H. Kenyon; 1st Sergeant, R. S. Humphrey; Supply Sergeant, T. G. Holcombe...
After a simple dedication "to the mem- ory of Alan Seeger, our soldier-poet, who met death in July, 1916, fighting for the high cause to which now all America is consecrated," the calendar contains a page for each week, and on each page a bit of war verse. Wisely governed by the rule that a poem should be given completely or not at all, the editor has collected the best of the shorter poems dealing with the war. Most of these are the work of American authors, but France, Belgium and England have each at least one representative...
...article is called "Friendly Faces," dedicated to the 1910 board of the Monthly. It begins with the reminder that four books concerned with the world war, and published during the past year--Walter Lippmann's "Stakes of Diplomacy," John Reed's "War in Eastern Europe," Alan Seeger's "Poems," and Mr. Hunt's own "War Bread"--were written by members of the 1910 Monthly board, and that the 1909 board had its similar representation in Henry Sheahan's "Volunteer Poilu." It proceeds with a dramatized vision of the Monthly Sanctum in 1910, from which the spectator is transported in imagination...
Yesterday's writers will do well to read Alan Seeger's "Message to America." written on the battlefields of France, one verse of which reads...