Physical,  chronological,  and  other  con-
tingencies keep  me  in  these  days  from
critical  studies  and  literary  circles

Where  once  we  held  debate,  a  band
Of  youthful  friends,  on  mind  and  art

(if  one  may  quote  Tennyson  in  this  century
of  free  verse).  Hence  I  cannot  know
how  things  are  going  so  well  as  I  used  to
know  them,  and  the  aforesaid  limitations
must  quite  prevent  my  knowing  hence-
forward.
I  have  to  thank  the  editors  and  owners
of  The  Times,  Fortnightly,  Mercury,  and
other  periodicals  in  which  a  few  of  the
poems  have  appeared  for  kindly  assent-
ing to  their  being  reclaimed  for  collected
publication.
T.  H.
February  1922.
