St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-22
NEW BOOKS.

"Prairie Songs" by Hamiin Garland.
Illustrated by Ii. S. Carpenter. Pub
lished by Storm q Kimball, Cambridge
and Chicago. Price. Sl.25.
The author says in his preface
'These songs are of the praries, rich in
grasses. blue-joint, crows-foot and wild
oats. intersected by delightful streams,
beited in splendid groves of oaks and
NAPLES and Eastwood trees 70 the
reader who has never felt the deep
charm or the green wilderness these
verses will unfold an ever changing
panorafnaof enchanting scenes. But to
one who has known
"The mystery aud power of the untracked
land,
The lure of winds from unknown spaces,
Fhe wonder and power of swift rivers
where only the shy beaver builds u dam.
The Wild woods and rivers and untrod
sweep of sand, :"
they will bring back memories OF old
times, With added charms. Those days
will come again when he was young
and the world seemed fresh from the
Creators hand.
There are imperfections in the rhyme.
and at times limping in the verse, but
the book is full of gems OF word paint
ing, and straightforward forcefulness
characterizes the style. See this picture {:
"A gray blue stream that curves
ana strikes high red cliff. lined
with bronze-green pines on the farthe
side;
Near by cloud of gray cold naked asps-
And far beyond green-spotted Gifts
| VI orange soil. with glittering mountains
Filling the far vista
Here is another:
Tine sky was like low-hung purple disk.
me PLAIN It's counterpart; eastward be
tween
These infinite disks of variant purple the
Rushed. steadily entering belt of orange,
colored sky
Wherein the spring time sunlight grew in
power.
Against The glowing band
lroth or purple plain upreared to notch
ne otherWlse unbroken splendid sweep
Or lnterseeting sky and plain From it
a lnln pine smoke arose, a human habita-
ton"
The new firm of Storne d Kimbali is
sending out some beautiful books. This
volume is gem Ill every way. The
paper is English laid with gilt-top and
uncut edges, 1.-THE type clear and the
initial letter pieces most artistic in de.
sign and execution. The cover is green,
with pattern of standing corn in gold.
The cover head and initial letter pieces
were designed by II. L. Carpenter.
1.-The Childhood of an Affinity" by
Katherine E. Rand. Boston: Areua
Publishing company. Price. so cents.
This volume, one OF the Arena Ii
brary series. is study of the minds OF
Children, their development under the
influences and environments of ordinary
American life.
While the shuttle of the story is pass
Ing back and forth weaving love tale
OF two children, very immature, and,
except that the child is the parent of a
fuil-groWn person, uninteresting.
there are incidents of family life, con-
versations while wandering on stretches
OF sea-sand. or gathered around roar
ing fire of sweet-scented driftwood,
which are original and interesting. Tho
subject of "Hareditary Personality; -
that while you are yourself. under diff
ferent conditions you would have been
quite another person, will excite some
interest i'll knowing in what direction
ones possibilities lay and whether, il
| certain personalities had been eliminat.
ed, one might have been Brooks. or III
| another way Gould. BOW to make out
| OF the Inherited accumulation of the
| characters of child's ancestors the bes
| possible being is the apparent motive OF
| the story.