The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-29
THIS MORNINGS GOSSIP
BY ANNIE kENDRIck WALKER.

The past week has been a particularly
brilliant one socially. the Kettig cotillon
having been pronounced the leading event
of the entire season. while the entertain
ment given by the Cadmean Circle at the
residence of Mrs. Joseph MeLester was a
most delightful and unique affair. 1t was
"A Japanese Evening, and thus adorned
with all the charming color, quaint design
and graceful spirit of those magic Islands.
All the ladies taking part in the pro-
gramme wore the Japanese costume and
there was japanese music. Japanese
poems and even japanese sermon. The
last, a very clever and humorous bit of
monologue. was given by Mrs. David Rob
erts.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick demonstrated the fam
Gus jiu-jitsu Many delightful little songs
were rendered from the popular Japanese
operas, San Toy and the Geisha Girl
those taking part being Miss Lena Jack
: son, Mr. Lorenzo Luckie, Miss Susie Nc
Lester, Miss Ethel Clifford Miss Anna
May Phelan, Miss Kate Burchard and lit
tie Miss Belle Roberts. The most interest
ing feature of the evening was the talk
by Mrs w S. Lowell on the celebrated
y
the reading of several of his poems.
At the meeting Of the Cadmean circle
lest Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. McLester, all of the members dress
&c in Japanese costume, and, among the
numbers on the impromptn programme
was reading by Mrs. W. 5. Lowell oil
several of the exquisite poems Of the
celebrated young Japanese poet None
Noguchi who has been hailed as the
t.fe ct nf NriPtnTiplIs npOnlP.' and
whose work in England and America
as well as in Japan, has justly taken
the first rank, among discriminating crit
les and readers. Yone Noguchi is the first
Japanese to gain distinction as an En-
glish poet in the whole history of that
brillian nation. Mrs. Lowell gave briet
account of the young poets life; his
first years of hardship spent in this
country, his long stay ut the mountain
home of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the
Sierras, his visit to Charles Warren
Stoddard In the east. his sojourn in En-
gland, and at length his triumphal and
unparalleled success with the appear
ance of his third book, prom the East
tern Sea-" published in London at the
Unicorn VII Cecil Court and in Toxic.
Fuzanbo) This book, appearing as it did
soon after the Anglo-Japanese alliance,
created a furore all over Great Britain.
William Michael Rosetti, Andrew Lang,
Austin Dobson, Thomas Hardy George
Meredith, Mrs. Meynell, Fiona Mcleod
and Sir Lewis Morris hailed with e.thu-
siasm the coming of the new poet. EY-
eryone of the prominent papers and lit
erary magazines took up the discussion
and criticism of the poems, so startling
in metaphor, so rare and mystic and
sublime in thought and suggestion, and
SO new In construction-perfect many
OF them-fa Shioned as they are out or
moonlight, the breadth of flowers. love
OF women and the song of birds. Subtitle,
magic and enhancing, they can appeal
only to the nature lover, the artist and
the poet In spirit Yone Noguchi recalls
Keats and Shelley. He is supremely a
poet of love and tenderness wells in
his heart of poems and sadness unut-
terabe
Mrs. Lowell opened her little talk with
Yone Noguchi's invocation to the sacred
mountain, the great Fulfil Yama, beloved
of the Japanese, to the divine spirits OF
which the poem, From the Eastern Sea
are dedicated Her Interpretation was
rare And she also read that most beau
tiful of the poems Under the Moon -
what a bird dreams i'm the moonlight Is
my dream; what a rose sings Is my song.
Yone Noguchi was in Birmingham
few days last summer just before he re-
turned to Japan where now he Is being
tremendously lionlzed He has recently
published another book of poems and the
Japanese edition of his one prose work,
1.-THE American Diary of a japanese Girl
(Stokes & Co.. publishers, New York
and Fuzanbo, Tokio) has also recently ap-
peared.