WALTER DECASSERES was born in Philadelphia on August 12, 1881, and threw himself into the Delaware River some time during the night of February 4, 1900. His mysterious disappearance caused a great deal of comment in the Philadelphia papers, on one of which, The Press, he was employed as a copyholder in the proof-room at the time of his death. His body was found on April 1 of the same year by some workmen doing river work at the foot of Arch Street. He was identified by a library card in his pocket. He was buried in Adath Jeshurun Cemetery, in Frankford, Philadelphia, on April 3. These poems...