The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-25

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| hand because my ieshly Ills increase?
| No; for there still remains one chance
that / am not His Masterpiece"
II this is not that subtle intoxicant pro-
| duced when religion and philosophy are
\ melted wholly in the wine of poesy-
| what is It?
OF love the author knows much less
than Of religion. but these lines at :. st
| ring true and are exquisitely made:
Il saw them kissing in the shade and
knew the sum of all my lore:
God gave them Youth. God gave them
Love, and even God can give no
| more"
"At first she loved naught else but fow-
ers, and then-she only loved the
Rose,
And then-herself alone, and then-she
knew not what, but now-she
knows"
And has anyone lately expressed the
large desires of Youth in filter words than
these?
II know a Thief who longs to steal from
the moons granary on high,
Or snatch the bunch of Pleiades from out
the corn-field or the sky"
But the final doctrine which the book
expresses, and the one which IL expresses
best, is the gospel of acceptance. and of
enjoyment even in endurance. What do
other things matter, the writer asks, so
long as we have the round green earth
and the warm smile of the sun?
THE Great Inn Keepers table is the
whole green face of earth, and so
sit at meat WITH Him, nor care whether
the Guest be friend or foe"
The one thing that life cannot take
from us is the wisdom that we win,
whether we gain or lose in the game we
may be playing.
yet what have I to do with sweets like
Love or Wine or Fames dear curse?
For / can do without all things except
except the universe"
1.-The Great Sword Bearer only knows just
when He'll wound my heart, not /:
But since He is the one who gives the
balm, what does 1t signify?"
To live to feel, to own our world. to
drink the cup of experience whether II is
sharp or sweet, to do ones best without
bitterness and to lift ones face hopefully
to the sky as one goes-that is to live as
a man should and to get the utmost that
our earthly days can give.
whether my days are cooled with calm
or flled with fever's ardent faint,
I have the same blue sky as God, have
the same God as the saint"
It would be difficult to overstate the
value and charm of this little book of
verse Whether Mr.. Terrence ever does
another or not is totally different aues-
ton 1t Is hardly an important one in
view of the fact that he has packed this
one so full of beauty and vitality that
II practically assures his future as poet.
even though he chooses to be silent here
after for the r-st OF his mortal life.
(..The House OF Hundred Lights" BY
Frederic Ridgely Terrence. Small, May
nard & Co. rs cents. For sale by Low
man & Hanford)
"a pANvIs PIONEER Is pleasant
"A tale of zone of Ethan Aliens
Green Mountain boys" There is
the favor of life and reliability about the
story. IL everything didn't happen to
Cran.ther Josiah Hill just as it is related
here why. It might have happened. 1t
surely happened to somebody in those old
savs The youthful reader may not find
the hook-which is intended chiefly for his
de,actation-as highly spiced as many of
tho semi-historical tales which he Is in
the liDlt Oh Itddlhs, oAN oit N''N 1870 -
| that account will II commend itself TO the
vouthful readers parents as safe Tor Pc
russi The story tells how Josiah Hill
and his partner went up into the Hamp-
shire grants more than century and
ouarter ago and dealt with Indians ana
hears and the wilderness generally, and
what happened to them after they found
that they had purchased grant OF man
who had no title to sell and how Josiah
uniutentionaiiy found a sweetheart to re-
,laes the Connecticut maiden who had
married somebody else as soon as his face
was set toward the wilderness II is all
avre.ably related, and its verisimilltude
xoes far to counterbalance the sobtiety
and restraint OF the telling, IT, indeed.
,hese are qualities that require a coun-
terbalancc
GA Danvis Pioneer" BY Roland L.
Robinson. Houghton, Miffiin & Co. sl.2S.
FOR sale by I>owmau & Hanford)
= r r
~RAKE AND HIS IEOMEN." by
James Barnes. is another boys book
OF a kind likely to be popular with
tho audience for whom Il is designed. The
admixture OF Action is Just a tr.ie less
thau in the ever popular Henty books.
which. otherwise. 1t strongly resembles.
The book processes to no "a true ac-
counting Of the character and adventure