The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-06

BOMB RHYMES OF 1RONQUILb OF KAN
fishers. FOR sale by 6ton Thayer Co. Cloth
edition, 81.
In this volume OF fugitive verse we
find many poetic pearls. Il is volume
of today on subjects pertaining to pres
emit events, and as the author says in
his preface:
When back into the alphabet
The critics satire shall have crumbled,
When into dust his hand is humbled,
One verse OF mine may linger yet
Surely it shall if taken from tho open
ing poem OF this volume, entitled The,
Washerwoman's Song, full of the unssen
help that comes to the weak OF faith.
Though mysteriou7, the heroine OF this
little poem knew OF it. The heather
seem to grasp it as if by instinct, and
have crystaliized it into the maxim,
The gods help them that help the M
selves" Faith will grow If cultivated
by good works. N. @. Mcfarland of
Washington, ID. O., in personal letter
to the author saysi II have read again
and again, with indescribable pleasure
and sadness, your Washerwoman's
Song-pleasure. because 1T ia really
beautiful. and voices correctly the Joy
you cay you are shut out from a hope,
which, though not always 30 bright
and cheerful, Is worth more than
all else this world affords. You will
pardon me for addressing you in this
public manner, for l know that many
men OF intellect and culture occupy pc.
sitions not dissimiar to your own, and
hope in this way to make some eugges-
tions which will reach both you and
them and no. be Inappropriate to the
subject whether they shall prove valua-
BILE or useless. Reading between the
lines, think can see thorough in
terest, sort of inquiry, desire to pos
eess a hope like, or at least equal to,
that Of the heroine OF your song. Ii
this we're not so, could scarcely inter-
est myself sufficiently to write you for
confess have but little patience with
that class of criticism that fippantly
brushes aside the mysteries of God,
Christ and Immortality as fit only for
the contemplation of women and chill
dren. To me sthese mysteries are the
proioundest depths, and your poems are
filed with this. / have no plummet
heavy enough nor line long enough to
reach the bottom. I may push them
aside for time, while other things en-
Rrosa me. but thar. 90 paRssp hiddAn eseiH-
that thus affects Judge Mcfarland of
Washington will surely interest every
reade1 OF the Rhymes OF Ironquill. The
ode to the Kansas Herder is full of prai-
RE life. The pre-emptor brings back
carly Kansas days. The Geese and the
Cranes are typical of Kansas
in Indian summer; in the haze of
the short autumnal days the geese fly
h0meward, while the cranes linger long
III the field Of maize, picking up the
golden grains; 80 with US, with life as
the field and hours the grains, our
habits, good and bad; are the geese and
the cranes. eating up the golden hours.
Few are the best habits we have, and
they early 90 to rest like the geese,
while through the midnight dreary is
heard the fighting of the cranes for the
last grain in the last moment. Very
patriotic Is his ode to Decoration Day,
as recited at Arlington. AS we read the
Prairie Storm we can see the wet and
sodden prairie grass, the red elms
dripping upon the wild plum thickets.
We can almost feel how very dismal
the afternoon is, with it's black bank OF
clouds, the edges hanging like ragged
wells and trailing on the prairie toward
the west. AS comical a poem as one
can wish to read is An Agreed State
ment OF Facts as to the admission OF
Mr.. Hio Jones to the Paint Creek bar,
Kansas. His Corn poem is an historical
tribute to Kansas, delivered at the Kan
sas celebration, centennial Fourth of
July. The Medicine Man, the story OF
8 Kansas pioneer, ends q very interest
ing book of verse, typical of the etate
which it represents, state which will
live in story with old Massach usetts and
her Plymouth Rock, or with Virginia
and her noble ancestry, will live In
memory as Sunny Kansas, full of woes
and glory, while other states are re-
membered as mere names.
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THE WHITE CITY, the Historical, Biograph-
1cal and Philanthropical Record of Ill
nois, by JOHN Moses and PAUL SELBY. |
Published by the Chicago World Book
company. Chicago. Ill. For sale by Anti
quarlan book store.
When the worlds fair was declared |
formally opened on May Is, 1898, long
season of enjoyment was opened to the |
lover of the beautiful, and the few
months allotted to display of the
worlds useful and artistic creations
seemed ample time to permit OF their
inspection by the many visitors. But if
one had attended every day during the
entire line the Columbian exposition
was opened, he would still desire to
continue his research, so fascinating was
the study of the exhibits contributed by
every nation of the globe. But the ma
jority of the visitors could take but a
few days. glimpse of the white city.
Whether the visit was OF longer or
shorter duration, however, the sem
iment was the same with each
ttendant, desire to retain in mind
hat which pleased him most, and to be
sisted to still better knowledge OF
e exposition by some comprehensive,
rk which be could peruse in leisure
FRS. One of the enterprises which
be said to owe it's existence to the
DIS fair is The White City, a publi
IN issued by the Chicago World Book
>any. This series is composed OF
inform volumes. embracing the
States and territories, which is
with the cooperation OF the rep
2tives from the various states.
thor of each volume ia a resident
state or territory, thoroughly
ant with the resources and char
ics OF the same the matter is re-
10y representative men of the
I'd is then carefully and critic
Eed. The first volume of this
very properly devoted to the
state, Illinois, and that wondeE-