The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-02
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I knew the hen she shouldn't XIII, too;
4 o. the praises of just such dame Il.
Would leave my goose no quill, too
Mr., bargains muse. however. is not
always SO ITO speak, agricultural, OF
the barn yard. He has an aesthetic eye.
which,, upon being rolled over the visible
landscape, leads hin, to the Following VIII g
opinion:
y"Beauty's for use, or should be-
No perfect beauty IL snes lazy;
But somehow. It seems to me-,
Ugly people alone keep busy
some Of us who keep very busy IN Z
deed, In our respective states OF. liie,
viii be inclined to resent this last as
Buncalled for Turning his attention to
other makers OF verse, he leaves Lord
Tennyson not a leg to stand on.
IA sugar-candy prater. so entirely ou u.
One lucky line seems treason TO the
whole"
disposition 10 prefer the late laureate to
Mr.. bargain is respectfully asked to re-
Mr. Mayhugh's Lyrics OF Childhood
are childrer's verses In the vein en-
deared by Eugene Field and James WHIT
comb Riley, and many Of them aye gooo
enough to bear comparison with the
work OF those poets. Mr.. Mnyhugh's
verse il free from the swashy sentiment
tally which SO many writers take to pc a
necessary ingredient in anything written
for the young. IS natural, simple, human
and interesting, and his little book makes MAKES
d really welcome addition to the litera-
ture Of the nursery.
ECHOES from the Glen" Is divided into
three sections, containing, respectively,
noens Of sentiment, war POEMS and dia-s
iect verse Captain Carriers verse IS
quite IN to the standard of magazine poe
try. and some Of 1t, perhaps. a lutte
above. The war poems and dialect verses
are both based upon the authors per-
sonal experience in the field and on the
plantation. Captain Carter lives IN boyce
county. Virginia, and is cousin Of
Thomas Nelson Page.
THE AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR "a !,
BOOK, 1so4-1so5 Edited BY Cyrus
Adler and Henrietta Sold. The Jew
ish publication Society OF America.
Statistics in the American Je"Tsn
Year Book show that there are now !, IN !
the world, In round numbers, eleven mil
lion Jews. OF these 5,1S94ol are In Rus
STA. 2,076, 37S in Austria Hungary. and 1,2o3,-
213 in the United States. This leaves only
some ,oOo, Zoo to be scattered among forty
different countries. There are only some
4O2 Jews in Spain, and, but 800 IN CHINA,
and Just forty-three in Costa Rica. as
regards the distribution of Hebrews n N
the United States it was to be ex-
pected that New York, with Its swarHling
colonies in the met Aopolitan East Side,
would easily take the lead. New. orb
has soc, 900, Illinois is second with one
sixth as many, and Pennsylvania close
third with 5000 Ida no and Nevada are
tied for last place wit 4 800 Aea cf.s5sl mm M
grafton is. onFsthe increase; The. total
r influx of Z Hebrews at6fthe ports OF New
York PHILADELPHIA. and Baltimore from
July /. 1908, to June 80, 1904, was go.
sol while, for the preceding year, the.
figure was 64429.
G We have found this Year BOOK decldeo.
3ly interesting. A review OF THE yea
by Cyrus L. Sulzberger, begins with inc
significant statement that mo starting
tragedy marked the year 5664 the in
ference being that tragedy was more or
less to be xpectetl. And. indeed IN
the light Of recent occurrences, this
noint Of view IS quite defensible. The
Zionlstic movement received. a blow IN the
death Of the illustrious sSS D.. 4sE ! eodor
Herzl. from which It IS still sta ggering.
The offer of the English government to
place at the disposal OF the Ztonists
with local self government for the peo-.
ple under a Jewish governor and Brit
#ish protectorate, has not yet been defi-,
nitely acted upon. 1t is noted that the
discrimination of u Russian authorities
against Jewish holders ofSAmerlcan pas s.
ports has been vigorously taken up by the
organized Hebrew societies. and both po-
litical parties in the United states are
now publicly pledged to putting the Jews
on an equal footing In this respect with
all other American citizens
About one-third of the volume Is de-
voted TO brief biographical sketches OF
such Jews as have won a place OF dls-
tinction In the arts. the sciences, IN,
journalism. in business and public life,
Among these we may mention, IN thea.
trical life, David Belnsco, Charles and
Daniel Frohman, Oscar Hammerstein,i
Anna Held. Clara Lipman; among writ
lers. ALAN Dale (Alfred ]. Cohen). Ezra
S. Brudno, a. Cahan. Sydney Rosenf1eld.
Robert Loveman; Senator Rayner, OF
Maryland; David Fl Carvalho. the hand
writing expert: Heinrich Copried, manager
OF the. Metropolitan Opera House; Mayor
Fleischman, Of Cincinnati: Thy" Mayer,
the cartoonist; Isaac H. seligman, the
banker, and many others. The surprise
is not however. that there are SO many
distinguished men In the list. but that
there are so few. The list lays no claim
II to completeness however and the edi-
tors state thai only about fifty per cent.
Of the inquiry blanks which they circu-
lated with view to securing the nee
essary data. were ever returned. I'm
sdoubtedly. there are a very large num-
Der OF well-known Jews whose names do
not figure in this book atlall. 4 TO our!
mind the most astonishing bit OF In
formation tina the book contains Is that
Anna Held is only twenty-six years old.
We seem to have been hearing OF Miss
Held pretty much ever since we can re-
member.
COMPROMISES. BY Agnes Repplier.
277 pp, sl,1o. Houghton, Milflin
Co, Boston,
Those readers whose range does not
stop short at the boundaries of fiction
will be already quite familiar with Miss
Reppier's charming essays. Written
with n notable ease and delcacy of style,
lightened by the play Of keen sense