The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-21

with which many readers are familiay.
the book lover viii welcome this new
volume as preserving In compact and
convenient form the best of the au-
thor's voluminOus work.
Dr. English is, believe, the oldest of
living American singers, the charming
melody by which he is best known.
ben Bolt" dating as far back as 1913.
Few songs have had such worldwide
vogue. 1t has gone round the world
singing Itself into the hearts of the
| young as promise of coming love and
| INTO the memories of the old like the
voices of their LIST loved ones. DIR.
EhgllSh is distinguished among Ameri-
! can poets by the rsatility of his sing
lng gifts and thu width of his emo
donal synlpathies. which embrace tho
fairy Kingdoms of Celtic folklore,
the romantic and adventurous balladry
OF chivalry. stirring pRans of war song
and all kinds OF rustic ard urban verse
dialect wh!msicality. Perhaps the most
serious and exalted of DIR. English's
Work is his tribute to the memory of
our master poet. William Cullen Bry.
ant written shortly after the latter's
death. ! quote the closing stanza:
So 'et him rest:
Give him quiet grave in some lone spot.
lie needs no shaft of somber granite, lest
He he forgot.
his nole is builded high and founded deep.
lis eIitaph is in the verse he gave
For all mems comfort. Let none living weep
tor one who steps to glory from the grave
But rather JOY that at fourscore and four
The poet dies TO live forevermore.
Though there are extant yarIous
bound volumes of Dr. English's poems
bearing the imprints OF leading nuh
fishers. american Ballads" "Rattle
Lyrics. Ballads of Irish History and |
others. there is need of this new com.
pilation in which the loving daughter
has performed distinct literary sery.
ice In preservation of the works of her i
rather. who is now in his eighty-second
year. He lives at Newark. n. j.
This much regarding an old poet
Here is a new one with an apparently
promising future. This is Herbert
Trench, whose "Deirdre Wed" and
other poems John Lane has lust
published. Perhaps no collection of
verse written In the last decade so
thoroughly represents the poetic con-
ditiOn OF the English mind at the mo
ment as this little volume of Mr..
Trench. which will greatly delight
one class Of readers and as greatly dis
please another. and both with reason.
1t Is so promising and so disappoint.
ing. A critical analysis may show
crudities and defects. but there is un-
questioned merit In his work, which
shows poetic fire and genius, strongly
reminding one of Keats In "Endy.
mion."
Ihe unceremonious expulsion of
George Kennan from Russia has d. ,
rected public attention to bis book.
siberia and the Exile System" which
startled the world ten years ago by Its
revelation Of the way political offend
ers were treated by the czar As a
serial in The Century the same mate
rial had caused a veritable sensation.
copies or the magazine circulated ip |
[he cars dominiOns reached their des-
nnation with whole pages blacked out n
Dy the censor. The book has not lost I I
It's interest In the past decade. and 8
even before Mr.. Kennan's summary {
eJectment from ST. Petersburg it had q
been selling better than foS SeSeral t
years past.
The Letters Of Her Mother to Hiiza. n G
'eth' which is natural and Ascinat-
ng complement to The Visits Of Eliza
,eth. bids fair to equal In popularity
he first book and also to augment the "
for the latter. The Question g
which the reader Of The Visits" n n
arlaDly asks, What sort of a woman
vas Elizabeth's motherT Is answered | q
q satisfactory manner. Tie Ater Il
olume is not satire. and, aside @rom
IS function of explaining the visits, It
oes for continental society just what d
The Visits" does for English. e
The author Of "She" and "KinR Solo. Il
IONS Mines" Is glad to vary the occu.
alton of novelist by the composition 4,
work in another field. Mr.. Rider =
laggard has already shown bis versa
Ilty and divers other admirable ouaI- NJ
les in "The Farmers Year." q de-
ghtful book. Last year be journeyed .
trough Palestine. Italy and Cyprus. :
nd the Longmans have in press a vol !,
me which he has made out OF his i'm :
ressions. II viii be called "A Winter !.
ilgrimage" and VIII be illustrated
ith 81 reproductions from photo :
Fapns. RICHARD TUPpEn. !,