The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-22

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.
with which, many readers are familiar,
the book lover will welcome this new
volume as preserving in compact and
convenient form the best of the au-
thors voluminous work.
DR.. English is, l 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 a promise of coming love and
into the memories of the old like the
voices of their lost loved ones. DR..
English is distinguished among Ameri-
can poets by the versatility Of his sing
ing gifts and the width Of his emo
tional sympathies, which embrace the
fairy Kingdoms of Celtic folklore,
the romantic and adventurous balladry
Of chivalry, stirring pRans Of war song
and all kinds Of rustic and urban verse
dialect whimsicality. Perhaps the most
serious and exalted Of DR.. English's
work Is his tribute to the memory OF
our master poet, William Cullen Bry-
ant, written shortly after the latter's
death. I quote the closing stanza:
So let him rest;
Give him quiet grave in some lone spot
He needs no shaft of somber granite, lest
He be forgot.
His mole is builded high and founded deep,
His epitaph is in the verse he gave
For all mems com4rt. Let none living weep
For 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 various
bound volumes of DR.. English's poems
bearing the imprints Of leading pub
fishers, american Ballads" Battle
Lyrics" Ballads Of Irish History anG
others, there is need of this new com,
pilation in which the loving daughter
has performed a distinct literary serv-
ice in preservation of the works of her
father, who is now in his eighty-second
year. He lives at Newark, N. J.
This much regarding an old poet.
Here is new one with an apparently
promising future. This is Herbert
Trench, whose "Deirdre We'd and
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,
e. ;c;r int
ing A critical analysis may show
crudities and defects, but there is I'M
questioned merit in his work. which
shows poetic fire and genius, strongly
reminding one Of Keats in "Endy-
mion''
The unceremonious expulsion of
George KEENAN, from Russia has di-
rected public attention to his book,
siberia and the Exile System" which
startled the world ten years ago by it's
revelation of the way political offend
ers were treated by the car. AS
serial in The Century the same mate
rial had caused a veritable sensation.
Copies of the magazine circulated in
the cars dominions reached their des-
by the censor. The book has not lost |
it's interest in the past decade, and
even before Mr. Remnants summary |
ejectment from st. Petersburg it had
been selling better than for several i
years past.
''The Letters of Her Mother to Eliza
BETH" which is a natural and fascinat /
ing complement to '"The Visits of Eliza
BETH" bids fair to equal in popularity '
the first book and also to augment the
demand for the latter. The question
which the reader Of 1.-THE Visits" in
variably asks, "What sort OF a woman
was Elizabeth's mother?' is answered !
in a satisfactory manner. The later ,
volume is not a satire, and aside from |
it's function of explaining the visits, it |
does fer continental society just what |
''The Visits does for English.
The author of ''She" and king Solo |
mons Mines" is glad to vary the occu-
patton of novelist by the composition
of a work in another field. Mr.. Rider |
Haggard has already shown his versa
tility and divers other admirable quail
tiles in "The Farmers Year" de-
lightful book. Last year he journeyed |
through Palestine, Italy and Cyprus, |
and the Longmans have in press vol
ume which he has made out of his i'm
pressions. It will be called "a Winter
Pilgrimage and will be illustrated |
with 81 reproductions from photo
granhs. RICHARD UPPER. !