Aiken is that we are brought "back to the theory of Freud. It is to some deep hunger, whether erotic or not. . . that we must look for the source of power."

Freud's original doctrine, I supposed, was that the source of power was erotic. If we modify this theory so far as to teach that the source of power is either "erotic or not" it seems to me that the theory has become a little flat.

Mr. Aiken suggests that the poetic inspiration is a manifestation of the hunger of the frustrate for richer experience." But that is precisely the theory which he started out to combat. What is more mysterious, "translunar" and "beyond analysis" than the hunger of the soul? Mr. Aiken complains that our criticism is still a rather primitive parade of likes and dislikes." But after experimenting three times a day for a good many years, I have become convinced that this primitive parade of likes and dislikes is just exactly what "hunger" is. The difference between emotion" and "hunger" of the soul is the differ-· ence between tweedledum and tweedledee. The "scientific" and psychological" poetic critics are driven back into the harbor of popular common sense. Poetry is the rhythm of emotion. TUCKAHOE, N. Y.

FREDERICK A. Wright.

FROM COUNSELOR JOB E. HEDGES

SIR, Please accept this expression of my appreciation of the remarkable work you are doing anent the war through the columns of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. I am particularly impressed with the February number. You struck the key-note when stating that what Washington officialdom needed was vision. What Congress needs is an active, virile, cohesive minority party, competing with the majority party in constructive support of the Government in this crucial time. Your February article appealed to me particularly, again, in using the word unselfishness as the acid test of support. No one in Washington need have the slightest doubt that the intelligent people of the country know on whose brow to plant the laurel of approval for patriotic service. NEW YORK CITY. JOB E. HEDGES.

A PRESIDENTIAL SUGGESTION

SIR,-When you are editorially reviewing men as Presidential candidates for the next election, I sincerely hope that you will suggest in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW the name of General Leonard Wood for that high office. He is a man of international fame.

I believe he merits and would get the highest recognition from our people as a whole; so it would make no difference which great party nominated him-he would win out.

His past efforts toward military preparedness for the United States now give him a warm place in the hearts of the people, which will outlast the too proud to fight" idea.

ARDMORE, PA.

I. N. KNAPP.

[We do not consider this a suitable time to discuss Presidential possibilities; neither upon general principles do we regard professional soldiers. favorably in that connection.-EDITOR.]

THE "WAR WEEKLY"

SIR, I am alarmed, but not surprised, at the pungent brilliancy (as well as the brevity) of the War Weekly articles.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

ERVING WINSLOW.

SIR,-I enclose my dollar for the weekly issue. I got a dollar's worth of satisfaction out of the first issue. That paragraph, "The Week," on the first page dated from Washington, was great.

BOSTON, MASS.

HOWARD W. LANG.

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TOLEDO, OHIO.

M. M. MILLER.

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WARE, MASS.

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DETROIT, MICH.

CLARA E. BEEBE.

SIR, Only the other day I remarked to a friend the pity of it that the clarion articles of Colonel Harvey were not appearing in a big metropolitan daily, so that they might go to hundreds of thousands instead of the fewer thousands of which the subscription lists of the REVIEW must consist. The man in the street" is the fellow who most needs the virile quality of Colonel Harvey's words.

I must have the War Weekly. Find my check for $1.00 and start me at the beginning.

Could I not possibly send a War Weekly subscription to a friend in England? Will the British Government permit its receipt? I have been clipping and mailing articles from the REVIEW regularly. The people over there" need these articles.

NEW YORK.

JOHN NORRIS MYERS.

SIR, The country is indebted to you for the War Weekly, which is a contribution of the finest and best patriotism. Courage coupled with judgment seems in these days to be a scarce article. Intelligent mice are quite plentiful, real men only here and there. You are performing a great service. You have the ear of the country, and the approval of thoughtful and patriotic men.

INDIANAPOLIS.

JAMES W. NOEL,

SIR, While I cannot call myself technically a subscriber to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, yet it has been a long time since I missed a number. The passing of Harper's Weekly left a blank which I am delighted to know will be filled in part at least by the War Weekly, to be issued in connection with THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, for subscribers to the latter. I enclose herewith my check for $5.00, covering the two subscriptions.

UNIONTOWN, PA.

EDMUND H. REPPERT.

SIR, The first issue of the WAR WEEKLY has been received, and I am delighted with it. As I expected, it is a reincarnation of the old Harper's Weekly I knew and loved so well. Many of your readers regret that the prospect of being put into "Burleson Gaol" seems to worry you so much. It needn't, for we shall surely bail you out, unless, of course, your persistence in indulging in constructive criticism of the administration of the war constitutes a crime so heinous that bail will be denied you. In that case we shall be sorry for you, of course, but we shall not suffer ourselves; for, without a doubt, you will write a "Martian's Progress or something of the sort and let us have it in weekly instalments. With Colonel Roosevelt as your cell neighbor, it ought to make pretty lively reading.

METUCHEN, N. J.

GEORGE H. LYNE.

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BOSTON, MASS.

WILLIAM M. WOOD.

SIR, Enclosed you have $5.00 covering price of subscription to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW and the War Weekly, for one year beginning February 1, 1918. I have chanced upon a copy of the War Weekly and like it very much. I have been a render of the REVIEW, purchased irregularly at the news-stands.

The late start and feverish haste of the whole round of our war preparations reminds me of the Irishman who ran to catch a train, and missed it. A bystander remarked:

"Pat, you didn't run fast enough."

Pat replied:

"Begorra, I didn't start soon enough.”

Missed it! What would it have meant to the Allies in 1916 had we then been as far along as we are now?-A subject for a strong article in the War Weekly.

NEWPORT, TENN.

J. W. FISHER.