The Washington herald., 1907-09-15

THE WASHING.
airy By-Paths of Old England" He has
given especial attention 10 Harvard 8
English Hfe both In Southwark, his
birthplace. and at Emmanuel College.
| Cambridge. Mr. Shelley has a theory
that Shakespeare introduced Harvard's
parents 20 each other. and doubtless some
Baconian will arise to show that Lord
Verulam, as a Cambridge man. advised
that he should be seEt 10 that university
rather than 70 oxford. These diversions
by no means dctract from the value OF
the book, which contains all that Is
known of Harvard and that university,
which began with a catalogue including
two nephews of its president and the
professors son. and at the very outset
made an invidious color distinction. TO put
it as elegantly as II the rejected candidate
for admission had been black instead or
an Indian 'as brown as any bun"
The Century Company viii publish. Sep
tember .. a new edition OF Boutet de
Monvel's beautifully made and illustrated
Joan Of Are six volumes of Geo
graphical Stories" Tetold from St Mich
olas; another Of Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett's Queen Silver Bell' fairy
stories; The Cosey Lion" "Abbie Ann, "
by George Madden Martin. author Of the
Emmy Lou" stories; Alice Hogan Rice S
first juvenile, Captain June" and a
story Of an oregon lumber camp. by Bea-
rrice Mantle. "Gret: the Story OF a Pa
gan"
At an early date Fisher Unwin will pub
lish The Letters OF Edwin Lear" con-
tanning a selection OF the writer's cor
respondence with Frances Lady Waldo
grave. who restored Strawberry Hill, and
was We'll known in London in the middle
Of the nineteenth century. and her fourth
husband. Lord Carlingford. The letters.
which have been edited by Constance
Lady Strachey. a niece Of Lady Wade
grave. cover a friendship Of more than
forty years. Edward Lear is best remem-
bered as the author OF THE Book OF
Nonsense" ," originally prepared FOR the
grandchildren Of Lord Derby, but his
travel books were cleverly written and
well received. The Book Of Nonsense"
has become IN its way as famous as
Alice IN Wonderland"
Into the latest volume OF the Riverside
Literature series. George Herbert Clarke.
formerly professor OF English In Mercer
University. has gathered d group OF se-
lected poems Of Percy Ryssho Shelley
They include the major part OF his work.
and they are prefaced by a biographical
sketch, d critical study Of Shelley as poet.
and a photography. In the sonnet
form" says Prof Clarke. particularly,
Shelley Is less successful. possibly because
his repugnance 20 even literary law that
did not Immediately commend itself 10 his
art sense may have disturbed his pen S
ease and power. Certainly. he was "a
careless hero Of the can0us. and seems
20 have had scant appreciation OF tho
self-justitying genius OF this difficult but
finely subtle form. Even so. one cannot
but be grateful that Shelley needed no
salvation from the vice OF fastidiousness
II is possible 10 fail In art as Brown
ing writes, only 10 succeed in highest
art The volume has for fronusplece
a portrait of the poet.
The best of the poems IN the August
Reader Magazine IS by 5. II. Kemper.
entitled Unknown l. s. Soldier"
The net say would split with the uproaT
That day when they fought:
This rest ia the stiffness and shadow
Gives time for l5lg thought.
He must think ~ one strange revelation,
One thrilling ElUgise-
II IS b-tCr 90 think with cool darkness
LAID over your eyes
Tine enough f0r deep thought while the branches
With winter are dumb.
When the great swings far . the uorthvard
And summer has come
BE lies lalsh1d with the wonderful knowledge
He holds 10 his breast,
And the bnSll Gag droops always above him
Z h0U0- lis rest.
Ror-h and reckless and headssroas and violent
Tiugl.ug siJh life
Charmed oaos BY .hs call q the drums
And the sound q the fife
That dav when they waited and waited
And kuCT they must die.
Where vas c7mfort for him. where vas help
Beneath :le hot sly!
All the life beating strong il bis body
Rcvoted Uut-cried
Against diving no courage or passion
But only his pride
Sent him on with the Others. des.alrlug
And hating u ALL
and faint with sick horror AZ seeir. them
Stumble ana fall
Far ont 90 the crest Of the battle.
Up. W toward the death
To die 10. ones country is sBeeJT'-he remembered
And then. out u breath.
Met .a n#a-r aud sL. mai md ha -.r~0r
UutiuChiuF and knew
II one iustants un5ca9ablo brightness
10 was true. Il was true.