The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-07

There are little guide posts all through
the book to keep the reader on the right
track but they are as puzzling to the lay
man as the verses themselves. The first
one states that MANY are the colours OF
the Rainbow reflected In the Dewdrops
that SILVER on the grass, but there IL only
One Light and the Sea is One After that
there are some poems. Including one en-
titled 41n the Pnewoods, " which says:
Here In tho silcn, wood Beauty and Peace join
hands a, Inst
And all the wars Of the world have shriveted
and fallen away.
For the winds OF Unknown WIN are blowing
out OF the Vast
And the soul OF the world grows one With the
slips tia, pity and pray.
After a considerable interval there is
another guide post that reads: The Deeds
Of the Many have filed the world with
tumult and lamentation, but the Dream Of
the One is the Music OF Life
This Illuminating milestone is followed
| by poem called THE Truce Of God In
which ia writton';
The wind has fallen at last and the daylight has
faded away
Pence lies the hills and the sea and peace on the
rain drcnched sod
/ And the evening dreams In pity Ger the battle
heds Of the day;
/ But those who shoot pigeons az twilight nave
broken tho truce OF God.
A whole years club papers might be de-
voted 10 the last clause. Why pigeons in
PARTICULAR And why aren't pigeons in
their houses at twilight? The verses are !
! published by Longmans, Green Co.
Lyrics Of Life and Love- Herbert B,
| Turner & Coz is the title given to the first
collected edition OF the poems written by |
William Stanley Braithwaite, young negro |
author who has been pronounced one of the !
most gifted poets Of his race, Certainly |
his verses possess to a marked degree the |
pure lyric quality He Is poet with a
song to sing and his melodies are tender in !
sentiment and pure in ideals. That he has
studied his RIOS s,tti is apparent but there Is
originality in his work which compels con
sideration and certain undercurrent Of
sadness that proclams his race. There
are no ambitious poems in the collection,
but simple, meodiou' expressions OF poetical
feeling Of which A Dream and a Song
is representative type:
A dream comes In and song goes forth.
The wind IS south and the sun Is north
The dHidcs nun on the dunes to ;he sea
And over the word my soul goes tree.
Ah over tho world 10 sing and roam
la thc sun and wind without a home.
TIL womans hchT Shsll dream and say
"oh song OF the dreamer, bid you stay
And sing In my heart. make glad my feet,
To run as the winds do. soh and Ncet
over the dunes and down 10 the sea
Where Love cane home In dream TO me-
Another itie song mpts TO quotation
and suggests Him:
| blow you a kiss on the evening wind,
nv dee Wherever you b..
{ p In the north down in the south
or GU the rolling sea.
I blow YOU a kiss but after the Kiss
10 YOU know what follows, my dear
Something the Wind cannot bring TO you
only little tear,
Day Dream and Even Song, is book Of
sonnets lyrics and quatrains written by
Frederic Fairchild sherman and published
by james Pott & Co Several of the poems
included in the collection are reprinted
from various ma gaines in which they have
appeared. The verses are not direren
tinted from others Of their class by any
touch OF originality or distinction, and it is
TO I've feared that the writer ambition ex-
pressed in the concluding poem TO leave
one lyric ] can trust TO live for all eternity"
will not be realized from the present volume.
The verses are not without attraction in
their carefully cultivated phrasing but
to live for all eternity is good deal TO ask
OF lyric.
Howard V Sutherland has collected a
lot Of Bachelor Lyrics Ferryboat Fam
cies- and poetical tributes TO the general
beauty and superiority Of San Francisco,
her winds. which we all remember, her
taverns and her Cinnamon with a book
which he calls Songs Of City and which
James s Barry, also Of San Francisco. has
published The songs will no doubt be
duly appreciated in the city of which they
are written. To the degenerate taste Of the
efIete East these inspired verses appeal only
in one aspect that Of curiosity as TO why
they were ever published at all Perhaps
The Missing Footsteps which opens the
series is poetry of high order.
The crowd is gay on Market street.
paradIng up and down.
on hears the hum. the tread OF feet
The music OF the town.
stand alone beneath lamp
And smoAe ny tearcuc
miss football IN that tramp
Which I can neer forget.
But It is poetry Of an elemental kind that {
ia best appreciated by young and fresh :
minds.
American History,
II Ia astonishing TO note the general out ,
burst Of historical writing about America !
in the last two or three years. Some later ,
philosopher, perhaps, may account for it
and some chronicler may relate the fort s.