The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-20
Ballads Of Sunlit Years.

TleHuS OIL tne late James LINDSAY
Gordon, of Virginia, in Richmond. tn,
State and elsewhere, will be interested
to know that n limited edition OF hi
fugitive poems, selected and arranged b,
their author. has been Just issued by TIL,
North American Press, of New York
The volume of song is entitled "Bal
lads of the Sunlt Years" The dedication
in melodous verse. Is addressed ITO One
In Another Country" was written In the
year 1903, and contains these lines
Ballads of the sunlit years:
Songs that memory more endears
AS the later skies grow grey
Spun of laughter. hopes and fears"
James Lindsay Gordon died while the
book was going through the press. It
contains his poem. THE Building OF the
Fame, read on October %. 1901, ut the
unwilling of a memorial tablet erected
by the Virginia Colonial Danes, to the
founders OF William and Mary College.
This and many other poems connected
with Virginia people. places and events.
written in the peculiarly beautiful and
musical rhythm for which Mr.. Gordon
was distinguished, will render the volume
one that makes an unusual impression
upon It's readers.
AT the time of James Lindsay Gordons
death friend in Virginia, after at
lending his funeral services. wrote:
Amidst the scenes of his boyhood. in
sight of the blue hills beloved. where a
youth of promise grew into a manhood
ST fulfillment. he sleeps, dead In his
prime. life's song half-sung on his lips.
and the music of his genius stilled for
sver., with his heart"
His lines. written on the early passing
Of a friend, Thomas I.ongstreet Wood.
might we'll he inscribed on his own
tomb. These lines run thus:
with lifes first laurels in his eager
hands,
Down the dim slopes of death he went
away.
Lingering not here disconsolate az they
Who wait and watch the ebbing OF the
sands
OF life. he suddenly broke the bitter
bands
That bind the soul within It's coil OF
clay.
And with no single hope or faith grown
grey
Passed, 'bl:the and young, into the
Golden Lands
Apart. however, from authorship and
associations Ballads OF Sunlit Years"
Will be accorded place of It's own In
American literature. for from its pages
Is breathed the genuine spirit of poetry.
spirit so rare as to demand and re-
,eive instant recognition and apprecia-
don.
Miss Barbee At Club.
Miss Mamie Barbee, of Danville KY,
he daughter OF Colonel Thomas Barbee
ind his Wife Nancy Fry Spencer. and
ME guest of Mrs. l.. L. Lewis while in
Richmond. delighted the members of the
Noman's Club ,Ienday afternoon by her
o1S
nonologues and kentucky mountain
'ialect stories. M
The first part OF her programme pre-
)ented real happenings heard from old
plantation ''mammies," interviewer with
her personal experiences. The second
part embodied, among other things, an
HEXperience Meeting" and High Gull
lure in the South
Miss Barbee is an acknowledged mis-
tress Of her art In delineation. Her
Splendid voice, her entire absence of self
consciousness or stage mannerisms and
the fact that she speaks of things
known and seen. taking the color and
vividness of what she relates from her
early and life-long environment, renders
the pictures that she draws absolutely
faithful to life and. as such. lnimitable.
Miss Barbee spent tho past winter in
st. Louis. Mo-, where she was most sue
cessful. making one of her most notable
rccitations. after the toasts, at q han
Quet given in Planters Hotel by the Ken.
lucky Society. She had the pleasure of
going, by invitation. to visit the Governor
of Missouri and his wife at the Execa,-
tive Mansion, In Jefferson City, Mo.
The Young Ladies' Society Of Grace
Episcopal Church. have prevailed upon
Miss Barbee to give them a recital at
$50 o'clock next Wednesday evening, In
the lecture-roo.n OF the church. The
Lynchhurg News of Sunday says, In re-
gard to Miss Barbse's going on Friday
next. TO Lyncssarg. that:
A called meeting of the Old Dominion
Chapter, U. D. c.. was held Thursday
afternoon, al the residence of Mrs. A. =.
Anderson, on Madison Street
The only important business consd
cred was the arranging for the coming
of Miss Barbee the Kentucky inner
senator of the old-tims negro, who is
TO give an afternoon entertainment for
the Daughters, Mrs. Lynch Ward will
assist Miss Barbee at this matinee ~
rging negro melodies In costume, A
committee of the Daughters will NEE,