The weekly examiner., 1901-04-13
SIN THIS OUR WORLD"
A Book of Poems For the People by Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.1
 ''In This Our World" poems by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, will be es- pecially interesting in connection with the authors Women and Economies" !" The theories evolved in the scientific work are from facts before unnoticed by social scientists and are extremely interesting as well as important. Un- like many works on social science, there is no effort to protect any theory at the expense of truth. In the poems the same truthfulness prevails. They are unique in that beauty does not tempt this poet at the expense of truth. While there is rare beauty in the truthfulness of some of the poems, yet unbeautiful subjects are chosen, as if truth required that the proportions of the unbeautiful should be suggested as 1t really is in this our world. Perhaps it is this unique choice of subjects which makes the writer a satirist. Howefls says hers are the best satires since Lowelps. 1 1.-The books together are quite as
 Shy of study as evex were those the authors aunt. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Never before has woman written great scientific work; never has scientist told us how he feels in his various moods about this our world; never before have we seen the strong scientific mind united in writ CT with the sensitiveness of poet and of a woman. .4 Fragments of Mrs.. Stetson's work which stray into magazines do not do her justice. The two books taken to- gether are the best interpretation of the labor movement as it concerns the women, the lowest laborers. For do- mestic servants what could be finer? Exiled from home. The far sea rolls
 Between them and the country of their. birth The childhood turning impulse of their souls Pulls half across the earth. Blinded with homesick tears, the exile stands;
 To toll for alien household gods she comes servant and stranger in land,
 Homeless within our homes 5 Cowardly leaders are condemned thus: .s.-... .-.
 man must livei We justify . $
 Low shift and trick to treason high
 By that self evident reply -
 But is 1t SO? Pray, tell me why
 Life at such cost you have to buyf
 In what religion were you told
 A man must live9 There are times when q man must diei
 Imagine for battle cry
 This towards whine, this liars lie
 man must livel Tn the poems she says in another way what she says in "Women and Economies" that the condition of the race Is not completely glorious and all that can be desired when half of those born die in childhood. Because of the suffering implied in this fact further progress is desirable.
 The religion of the brotherhood of man, the high religion of the labor movement, which regards an injury to one as the practical concern of all, is shown as it appears to idealists In the two beautiful poems, Seeking" and Finding" Love was sought at shrines and in temples but all ruled and faded, and love was lost. He was found on turning "to all earth's voices speak ing"
 Love, like the rain that falls on just and unjust; Love, like the sunshine, measureless and free,
 From each to all from all to each to live in, And in the worlds glad love 90 gladly given Came hearts true love to me.
 ELLA ORMsBY.
 New Salem, Mass.