The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-20
THE FIELD OF LITERATURE.
New Books.


Mr. Bunner, as editor of Puck has helped
make the world brighter by the sparkle of wit
In his leisure moments and they are doubtless
few enough, he has turned to verse and helped
make the world happier and better The
melody of his measures is perfect, the themes
well chosen and admirably handled, and the
result is little volume of poems that will find
warm welcome everywhere. The daintily-con-
ceived dedication in verse is to Brander Mat
thews. What is sweeter than
1.-THE sound of faroff streams
Faint dreams of chldhood's dreams,
Wandering in tangled pathways crost,
Like woodland truants strayed and lost
Their faint, complaining echoes roam
Threading the forest toward their home
30 brooks 1 too have gone astray,
And left my comrsde on the way
Guide me through aisles where soft you moan,
To sad spot you know alone,
Where only leaves and rustlngs stir,
And may dream, and dream of Her"
His poem Accepted" is peculiarly pretty and
effective:
We were walking home from meeting in the calm old
country street.
Where only giimmer of moonlight through the
arch of the elms came down,
And Weakening the twinkng shadows that played with
Playing hdeandseek with the little feet that peeped
from beneath her gown.
There things girl shouldn't THINK, ana certainly
But when she says them to you the difference it
makes is queer
And the touch of her hand sleeve seemed to ask
in a soft shy way:
Cant you put your arm around me- or isn't it dark
enough here9'
A doesn't let that chance slip by him beyond re-
But felt that it wouldn't do after much consider
Her parents were just ahead, which didn't
at all
But her younger brother behind us-ah that was a
different thing!
We reached the dear old homestead the moon made
tenderly white.
And stood on the broad front porch and all of them
fingered to chat
OF how the soprano had sung and the parson had
preached that night,
And how the widow was out in another scandalous
hat.
look of appeal from me, and wonderful glance
And we slipped away from the crowd, unnoticed and
swift, and still
I think twas the aower-beds crossed, but didn't
And she went back through the house. and met
at the window-silL
At the window around the corner with a soul to
seel
And stood in the grass below, and she bent down
And the hOneysuckles around she stretched
her arms to me,
u
trotha gift from Love.
And on through the book, replete with ten
derness, and purity. and beauty. Its merits
guarantee an extended sale
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A series of eight lectures, delivered in the Ok
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