The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-21

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| And yet there's nothing in EN-.
| We think we see some volatile reader
difYerentiating these specimens with ms
tongue In his cheek. We would gladly
castiqate him II we had time and space
In wild Roses OF California; Book OF
Verse, by Grace Hubbard "a. NJ. Robertson
San Francisoo), We read, under the ute
| Of Tell Me-
Did you ever ind glove
| In q hasty search some day
For handkerchief or FAM
Did you hide your face away
Did you sob and cry and moan
In your party dress 50 gayt
Did you call him 70 come oack-
| He who never. never mayf
We leave II for the fair reader to answer,
believing, and content with the belief
| that IL she ever did. it may be that she will
not tell. We may add that such wild
rose as this does not seem to us to be pecu-
liar TO California. Mr.. Kipling Is not the
only poet who has celebrated the recent
war in Africa In a slender volume en-
titled. THE Sailing Of the Long Ships and
Other Poems.' by Henry Newbolt Cd.
Appleton 4 Coz, we read. under the head
ing, -On Spion Kop,' this on the death OF
| Major N. H. Vertue Of the Buffs:'
Foremost Of all on battles nery steep.
Hero vertue fell. and here he sleeps his sleep.
A fairer name no Roman ever gave
To stand sole monument on Valors grave.
Under the title OF .Peace' the Same poet
sings in an apparently regretful strain;
No more 70 watch by Nights eternal shore.
With Euglands chivairy At dawn 70 ride:
No more defeat, faith, vtctory-Ohi moro
cause on earth for which We might have died.
Having once passed a month In Stock
bridge, with great pleasure to ourselves,
it gratines US to find in The Song Of the
Wedding Bells by William Bonnie Ock-
hame Crhe Grafton Press), a poem in cele-
bration Of the Massachusetts, Berkshire;
Vermont crows green and the maple Nils
As the spring comes north DER the Berkshire hills
Yes. the sap in the trees and ones heart blood
thrills
When she spring oome,h north DER the Berkshire
hills.
A sweetheart waits and . dear hear u nils
A. ride In the sprias DER the Berkshire hills.
This poem does not undertake too much.
It does not lug in the Hoosatonic River
and the little fishes and Mr.. Joseph Choate q
house. Its wise restraint results in pleas
ing brevity. Should ping-pong fail Of its
poets, We betray no secret when We say
that It does not. "A Little Book OF Ping
Pong Verse Dana Estes 4 Co.. Boston)
contains tho work OF . number Of poets
likewise the rules Of the game. Mr.. Roland
Lewis James here among others sings:
Oh. the game Is very silly.
But you like II willy -niliy.
II II dashing-
Balls are dazzling
When Png -Pong's played.
We know that the game calls for move
ment on the part Of the balls. and we do
not hesitate to characterize Mr.. Janes's
poem a. realistic. We like Q poet who IL
not above the facts. II anybody Is pre-
pared TO prove that the game is not silly
we should be glad to hear from him. Things
may happen In four weeks. In The
Solitary PATH by Helen Huntington
Doubleday. Page 4 Co... We read. under
the title Of "A Lifetime.'
month ago began my life.
And yessernisht died.
] know what Tune hide
OF bliss. Of agony. Of strife.
month ago ! heard them tell
Your name un then unknown.
Alasi the month has novn.
Last night we said farewell
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