The herald., 1898-01-09

| Can some one tell us what this means
Or the following? "I repose in the har
monious difference of the divine Siste
and Brother--Voice and Silence IL
| Time"
| OF night in the Yosemite he says:
"Hark! The prophecy -inciting wind
quake of the unfathomable concave O
| darkest He'll"
We have no space for further extracts
but before we pronounce this to be rea
poetry we want to think it over. Lik,
Wagner's music, it may be so mucl
better than 1t sounds
THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF AMER.
ICAN SONGS AND LYRICS. Ed.
tied by f. l.. Knowles. H. C. Page
& Co. One vol, cloth, gilt top, $1.25
/ VOL, half calf or morocco, $3.50
VOL, full levant, $4
Mr.. Knowles has undertaken to give
us in this beautiful volume a worthy
anthology of American poetry-a crit.
ical one. He says that the error of many
who have attempted this has lain in o
desire to make a popular work, and they
have conceded too much to Philistia
There is much truth in this, as most OF
us can attest. 1t is creditable to Mr.
Knowles that he has honestly attempted
to do for us what Mr.. Palgrave did in
his collection of English lyrics.
But, of course, such a compilation is
thing of personal judgment, and there
can be no standard that would be recog-
nized by all critics. The present work
Is not as ambitious and comprehensive
as Mr.. Stedmans poets of America u
but 1t Is rather collection of the more
musical, and those that come nearest to
singing themselves to their own music.
The index shows that the names of many
popular poets do not appear. This will
seem odd to many readers, but as we
said, all this matter of selection Is one
OF personal choice and judgment, and
because all such compilations are diff
ferent is what makes them interesting
and valuable.
We close this brief notice of q pretty
volume by quoting a bit of very sweet
verse from the pen of Harriet Prescott
Spofford:
1t was nothing but a rose I gave her
Nothing but rose;
Any wind might rob of half its SAVIOR
Any wind that blows.
When she took it from my trembling fin
gers
With a hand so chill
All. the flying touch upon them fingers,
Stays and thrills them still!
Withered. faded, pressed between the
pages
Crumpled, fold on fold
Once it lay upon her breast, and ages
Cannot make it old!
A GREAT LIE. By Wilfrid Hugh Ches-
son, author of "Name This Child"
etc. Frederick A. Stokes company.
Edward Weanering, the crippled son
of the fisherman, is the real hero of this
rather strange and sad English story.
Often would the ill-shaped boy cry out,
as he lay among the seaweeds, II would
give everything they pray for down
there for the straightness of an arrow,
for the strength of a man." He felt
somehow that God had ignored him, or
else He would have saved him
from the cruel jeers and blows of the
wicked boys who followed and tormented
him whenever he appeared upon the
streets. The story is an essay in what
must be called the sensat tional, and is
double-leaded in it's makeup.
A FOUNTAIN SEALED. BY Sir Walter
Besant, New York. frederick A.
g Stokes company.
This is a royal romance, in style uni
form with "The Master Craftsman" and
THE City of Refuge" which are so we'll
known to the public. 1t is daring plot,
carried to the very verge of credulity,
and yet the artistic properties are not
violated-it Is not incredible.
1t is the story of Prince Georges love
for one Nancy Waldron, young woman
beautiful and wholly respectable, but
not belonging to the nobility. Their ac-
quaintance came about in very ro-
mantle way, and nothing was seemingly
more genuine than the princes affection
for the young daughter of the paper
manufacturer. The disparity between
the two as to social position made an
open alliance impossible, and the prince
finally decided to renounce his claim to
the throne. The time of the marriage
was set and it was about to come off,
when the king suddenly died and Prince
George was hailed King George III. This
ended all between the lovers and the
young woman retired forever from the
world of society. 1t is a fine, strong
story.
GAP. By Captain Charles
King. F. Tennyson Nicely.
This new story of Captain Kings is
next to Fort Frayne" in excellence in
the judgment Of some critics. The
scenes of the incidents portrayed are
near those of the elder novel, and many
names of places are very familiar to us.
We must leave to the reader the full
pleasure of finding out for himself the
plot and outcome of the story, merely re-
that in his chosen field no writer
has done more good work than Captain
King.
THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF
CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES. BY G.
Frederick Wright, d D., LID, F.
G. S. A, Professor of the Harmony of
Science and Revelation, Oberlin Col
lege; author of "The Logic of Chris
tian Evidences" "Ice Age in North
America" etc. Illustrated. limo.
Cloth, $1.50. D. Appleton Company.
This volume contains the rlpest fruit
of the authors varied studies along the
several cognate lines of evidences which
with special power in recent
times to shed light upon the foundations
of Christianity. These chapters are an
of the Lowell Institute lee
tIIrps de1ivared in ROstOn in 1905