Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04


ident today of this city. But this error u
easily to be understood and does not lessen
the value of the work.
THE RUBAIYAT of THE CoMMUTER,
Being Quatrains Concerning the Ar
fairs of Everyday. By Harry Per-
sons Taber. Briarcliffe Manor. N. T.:
John Bridges.
In a neat little booklet form that any
commuter can tuck into his pocket comes
another rubaiyat. which is proclaimed as
the result of an obsession of the. public
mind by this form of versffcation. Mr.
Taber has been commuter. That fact
is plain as a p1kestaff None other but
who has caught the $40 train for
New York who has moved the lawn and
shoveled the snow path and planted weed
bearing seeds and entertained the Baptist
minister at tea, in real life, could have
written so feelingly and truthfully of these
and Sundry other phases of communication.
The rubaiyat form lends itself exceeding
ly well to the theme. OF course the lol
quotations include one on the style or the
best remembered of Fitzgeralds verses:
"A Book on Gardening and a Patent Plow
patient Horse, some Chickens and Cow,
Some Lettuce springing in the Garden patch
On, LoneSomehurst were Paradise enow!
But it is difficult to choose from so many
that are good and quotabe. save Shat one
more is really worth reproduction. petraE
ing the complete Sympath between the a"-
thor and the theme:
"At Evening when I'm through with daily Strife
l read aloud from Wagner's Simple Life,
Or Schopenhauer, or Dooley or George aue, :,
Or Letters of Home made Husband to his wire :,
Life in the suburbs becomes more livable
with this little book in existence.
FANCIEs AND THOUGHTS IN VERSE.
BY Augustus George Heaton. Bos-
ton: The Poet Lore Company
While Mr.. Heaton is best known as an
artist and as such is usually identified, yet
many of his poetic compositions have ap-
peared from time to time in a fugitive
manner to bespeak consideration for an
other phase of his nature. These poems
have been apropos at times of special ec-
casons of individuals, of passing impress
sons They have commemorated incidents
and eulogized the dead Collected now, at
the request of friends, they form con-
sistent whole more conspicuously than Is
often the case with fragments thus brought
together from many sources OF inspiration.
A distinct style prevails, and save In the
few poems of lighter vein which are
grouped at the end of the volume there en-
dureS a dominant strain of penslveness.
The poems are perhaps too gentle, lacking
in vigor and strength. They carry many
subtle thoughts and beautiful fancies.
VOOLFOLK SERIES, BOOK FIVE-A
and Other Animal Studies. By Will
lam ]. Long. Illustrated. Boston,
CHM & Co.
For genuine interest in animal person
alities this little book appeals as strongly
to the reader as anything that has appear
ed in the line of nature literature for
long period The author, having studied
the birds and animals and reptiles for
thirty years. with a sympathy for their
necessities and their dangers, has offered
series of ten short stories about coens
woodcocks, kingfshers, lynxes and other
creatures. and especially of a certain frog
named tx dunk the Fat One" This frog
proves a fascinating friend. Mr.. Long tells
of how he was watched, how he became
virtually tame, and responded eagerly TO
certain musical influences while others. less
pleasant even to human ears repealed him;
how voracious he was and how wide the
terest and instruct readers of all ages and
to inspire them with a new respect for the
rights of the animals and birds.
LAWSONIZED LYRICS. By Jyngo.
New York: H. NJ. Caldwell Company.
The rpples caused by Mr. Lawson's
plunge into the sea of magazine literature
are still troubling the face of the waters
Indeed, they may be just beginning. Here
is tiny ripple, and a merry one. 1t gives
dozen lyrics in the form of familiar
rhymes, apropos of the ''frenzied finance"
episode, with cleverly drawn pictures. A
phrase occurring in the following. which is
the only selection from such a small group
that fair play permits, is well worthy of
longevity:
'Of all high kicking dances since
To dance known to man,
There's not dancer danced them as
The Slandered Oil-can can
The Bulls and Bears all hold their breath
And Justices look queer
When Slandered Oil. above their heads.
Kicks down the chandelier