Lauriat Lane, Jr.

The Laughing Rooster, by Irving Layton

Bookstores specializing in out-of-print items may feel done out of a good thing, but readers of poetry, students of American literature, and Thoreau specialists and enthusiasts will be delighted that this edition of Thoreau's poems and poetic fragments, first published in 1943 but long unavailable, has been brought back in print in an expanded form.

It will be interesting to see how this posthumous collection of Robinson Jeffers' poetry makes out among the reviewers and the prize committees.

At least one thing keeps Irving Layton from being only the unkind names some readers of his new volume may call him.

Few scholars have done as well by their subjects as Thomas H. Johnson has by Emily Dickinson.