EARTH MOODS—Hervey Allen—Harper ($2.00). With the sure, strong voice that is none but his own, Poet Allen now sings as "a watcher of the high-skies" of the earth's aging, "the expressions of time upon the face of the planet." As well as the poet's eye and ear, he has the historian's precision, the astronomer's detachment:
That faint trumpeting that dies away Like the lowing of monstrous star-cattle Marks the passing of the mastodon ....
Who has heard the crack of Carthaginian whips
Upon the backs of frozen elephants,
The roar of war horns in...