The herald., 1896-11-22
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HDlTED BY ENocH KNIGHT
WILLIAM MORRIS
"Shall we wake, one morn of spring,
Glad of heart at everything?"

Glad Of heart at everything?"
Dear Singer, Graded first on Natures
breast
Hearing through days of bliss and nights
The iulling music of her reedy streams,
Till thine own song its inmost soul ex-
OF peace unstirred by struggle or unrest.
Were there no hours when to thy Moons
Came back the joy of morn's enchanted
Ere thy great heart began its weary quest?
Haunted through all the arches of the
wood
BY shapes of woe and cries of human
Faces that followed hands too weak to
cling,
Hast thou not walked at last and found it
To see no shadows on the glittering plain.
And once again be glad of everything?
Emily Huntington Miller.
They say this of a certain man of let
ters:
Sir Edwin Arnold. late candidate for
the office of poet laureate of England,
has now come down to selling poems to
advertisers, who use them to promote
the sale of Bovrl and patent medicines.
After all, there is something to be thank
full for in the selection of Mr.. Alfred
Austin. He may not be much of poet.
but he is also most certainly not liter
ary Cheap Jack
But this hardly seems just. The fact
is that Mr.. Arnold did write poem for
an agreed price. and the purchaser used
1t in an advertisement of a nostrum. 1t
was said at the time that the poet was
very indignant over the discovery and
denounced it as a trick. If this be true,
surely the publication of such criticisms
as the above is unfair and without ex-
cuse.
Some Of Appleton & Cos. announce
ments:
Driving for Pleasure. or the Harness.
Stable and Its Appointments.
Master Ardick Buccaneer. an histor-
ical novel, by new American writer.
The Story of a Mine. by Charles How
ard Shinn Cn the Stories of the West
series)
But perhaps the most important of the
announcements is the completion of Her
bert Spencer's system of philosophy,
now grown to three fine volumes. This
is great work and is fittingly enshrined
in splendid volumes.
The Macmillan company have two
new and notable volumes ready, Guesses
at the Riddle of Existence. by Prof Col
win Smith, and Gidding's Principles of
Sociology. These works must not be
forgotten by book buyers.
Here Is an able Frenchman giving us
a hitherto unsuspected bit of informa-
tion about our civilization and social GUS
toms. M. Gabriel Tarde, in his highly
scientific work, Les Lois de / Imitation
GS95) gravely sets forth the interesting
fact that 'all American women chew"
and that hence the spittoon is an orna-
ment of every American home! We sus-
pect that prowling Gaul at some time
or other has come upon the local habit
of dipping" and told some one about
r1@ ta11 A1e -11f
with variations repeated it to M. Tarde
And thus do nations come to judge each
others ways.-From Chronicle and Com
ment, in The Bookman.
One of the best pieces of journalistic
work of the season is the Los Angeles
feature of The Churchman'S last issue,
which The Herald heralded in last
weeks literary notes. The excellent ar
ticle is illustrated by pictures of all the
Episcopal church buildings in the re-
gion, and portraits of Bishop johnson
and the rectors of the diocese. The ar
ticle is full of historical and general in
terest.
TOMMY ANNE AND THE THREE
HEARTS. BY Mabel Osgood Wright
author of Birdcraft The Friendship
of Nature, etc. The Macmillan COM
pany, New York.
Here is a volume one knows to be good,
before even looking at it, if only one
has read the authors previous volumes.
Few writers have gotten nearer to the
heart of nature. and the hearts of ner
children than she has, and, indeed, to
write such books is only given to few
to do.
Tommy-Anne was not, as might be
supposed, pair of twins, but little girl
with no brothers or sisters. Her real
name was Diana, which had been shors-
b1 ola i,,1t,
trees. preferred boys games to dolls, and
asked a great many questions about
how things are made. her father called
: her Tommy-Anne in fun, and the name
suited her SO well that people very soon
forgot that she had any other.
And so she played alone in the woods
and garden, and asked questions about
everything. OF course she made friends
with all the birds and the animals, and
was on uncommonly intimate terms with
them. And it is of her sayings and do
irgs and experiences that this handsome
book for young people tells. There is q
full glossary giving the signifcation Of
the many Indian names used, and there
are nearly hundred illustrations. 1t is
book that has go in it.
A-BIRDING ON A BRONCO. A de-
lightful book on birCts and their
nests in Southern California. BY
Florence A. Merriam author of
Birds Through an Opera Glass. and
My Summer in a Mormon Village.
Houghton. Miffiin & Co. Boston.
1t is rather fine to come upon a book
about Southern California that does not
even touch upon town lots or climate.
Such a one is the charming Yolunlc now
under consideration. and we have been
sadly in need of the like of it, as well
as many another, which shall tell our
people many things that they do not
know about their neighbors and sur
roundings.
In. the preface the author explains
that the notes contained in the volume
were taken from March to May, 1889
ard from March to July, 1894. The
dwellingplace of the author, that is her
headquarters, appears to have been
near the coast, half way between here
and Sar Diego A few articles made
from these notes have been published in
some of the magazines, but the main
portion now appear here for the first
time. There is not a dull line in the
volume. and the earnestness of the writ
er is assurance of devout work. The
life out of doors all these months Is de-
scribed with great enthusiasm. The
illustrations are many and very care
fully made-some two score in ALL in
Guiding some very pretty bits of land
scape. AS we said, this is much
needed book. and is fine beginning OF
a greater work to be accomplished. AL
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