The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19

17S8-17Ss," by John Fiske. Illustrated by
mans, facsimiles, contemporary views, Prints,
and other historic materials. Houghton,
Mifiin & Co., Boston. $500. For sale by the
ST. Paul Book and Stationery company
Yone Noguchi, the Japanese boy
who, a year ago, startled the Western
world with his weird Oriental thought,
yelled in wonderfully involved, though
intense English, hyphenated into
strangely rich and varied meaning, is
the author of another small volume of
poems called "The Voice of the Val
ley" Since his first printed poems
Yone Noguchi has changed his style
q little, but not his thought or point
of view. He is still the young eagle
that flies into the face of the sun, and
is glad to be blinded by it; he still
is able to see into his own soul as
few children do, and he has a childlike
or godlike-faith in himself There
are times when he worships his own
soul and justifies his religion. When he
paints with those strange color words
Of his and with stretched-out eternity
for a canvas, there is only room for
Nature and God and himself in the
picture.
The form of his verse is almost pure
ly Oriental; it certainly has no coun-
terpart in Western composition, while
the many-syllabled, long lines-each
one a poem complete in itself-are the
poets native verse rendered into
sweeping English.
The Voice of the Valley is made
up of seven songs, written while Yone
Noguchi was under the spell of the
Yosemite valley, and they are SO vi
Erant with the spirit of the place and
the peculiar genius of the poet that
we copy one entire for our readers to
like or discard, as their critical taste
dictates. 1t is the shortest, but by
no means the greatest of the seven
that honor is given to THE Song Of
Songs, Which Is Noguchrs:"
1.-THE Sierra rock, a tavern for the CLOUDS,
refuses TO let Fame and Gold sojourn.
Down the Heaven ~ the river road, an an
gels ethereal shadow strays.
The Genii in the valley cavern consult In ST
o Lord show unto mortaIs thy journal
the balance of Glory and Decay"
C''rhe Voice of the Valley by Yone No
guchi. William Doxey, at the Sign of the
Lark. San Francisco. 70 cents)
A very beautiful Christmas volume.
and one that will meet with a wide
welcome, is "Some Colonial Home
steads and Their Stories" by Marion
Harland. The subject, itself, Is enough
to recommend 1t to large part of the
nation, and when to the popularity
of the theme are added the sympathy
and knowledge that the author has put
into her work, and the taste and fine
workmanship the publishers have con
tributed, the books standing is assur-
ed.
The field covered is a broad one, and
many are the old colonial families and
homes included in the scenery. Ro-
nance is a part of the authentic history
of these times and people, and it is a
question where the most is to be found,
in the staid old English households.
with their inherited prejudices and
creecs, orin the camp court oCPowhatan
before the little PoCahontas became
Rebecca and went to live at the plan
tation of Varina.
The volume is filed to overlooking
with pictures, quaint interiors, old por-
traits many of them by once famous
artists, coats of arms old graveyards
and family monuments.
C'Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Sto-
Ties" by Marion Harland. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. New York. $500. For sale by the St.
Paul Book and Stationery company.)
The illustrated edition of "Evangeline,"
which Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin & Co..
have been promising, is but lust in time
for the holidays. This edition is pre-
faced by an introduction by Alice NJ
Longfellow, the poets daughter, in
which she reminds US that ''it is just a
half century since Evangelne' was pub
lished." Great care has been taken
IN the making of this beautiful volume