_The author of this poem, John McCrae, B.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., was born
in Guelph, Canada, son of Colonel and Mrs. David McCrae, who still
survive him, and for several years he was professor of pathology at the
University of Vermont. In 1899 and 1900 he served with the artillery in
South Africa and rose to the rank of commanding officer of his battery.
Lieutenant-Colonel McCrae died in France from pneumonia January 28, 1918,
in his forty-sixth year. His other masterpiece, The Anxious Dead, will be
published in the May issue of the Whiz Bang, together with Poppies, J.
Eugene Chrisman’s poem of Flanders, and America’s Answer to In Flanders
Fields, the work of R. W. Lillard._