The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-04-13
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/ DREAM OF THE AGES. By Mrs Kate Brown.
lee Sherwood. Published by THE NATIONAL
TRIgCSE Co. Washington. ID. c. Price $3.50
This poem is beautiful alegory. It tells in
| the most rbythmieal verse how our fair land,
/ the Queen Columbia was married TO the
Mariner from the East. turning away her
/ Western wooer, the Red Man. The poem follows
( her through the years. and at each new event
! i'll her history the meter changes. This con-
| slant variance gives the greatest charm TO the
| poem. At the union OF Columbia with the
| East, Thee Wed is perfectly musical love-
song in itself, as is also her reply, Wed ,
| Thee" Later comes the song Of battle. CO.
| lumbias Sons are Marching" and then the
! meter and rhythm changes again for the dirge,
| Toll the Bells" as Columbia. the Mother,
mourns over her dead soldier sons The last
| few stanzas are Of very long lines telling Of the
| triumph OF peace and freedom. Through 10 all
| there is soaring eagle. This in itself is
/ triumph for Mrs. Sherwood, that she has
ceeded in making a heroic poem without one.
| The book is bound in dark-blne cloth, with
| gold lettering, aud has figure in gold outline
OIL the cover of Columbia. The frontispiece is
an artistic portrait of Mrs. Sherwood, with her
| autograph beneath. There are II illustrations
| from drawings of J. L. Kelly aud George w.
| Breck, reproduced in hslftones-
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Magazines and Notes.
Contents of the Arena for April: The Flu.
ture of Fiction; The Social Quagmire and the
Way Out; Authority in Christianity; The
Initiative in Switzerland; The Modern Ex-
preston of the Oldest Philosophy: Automatic
Writing; The Tenement House Problem in
New York Compulsory Arbitration; An
archsm Masters; The So Called Fad" in
the Public Schools: A Poet of the People;
| Celestial Gotham: The Voice in the Mount
AIMS The Burning of Negroes in the South;
| Books of the Day. Published at Boston, Mass.
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| Among the prominent contributors are III. c.
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Francis Davis Milet, Richard Malcolm john
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Kipling Hamln Garland, Archibald Forbes,
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man and scores of others. Most entertaining
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