The Washington herald., 1907-10-20

Library series. new edition of "The
brushWOOd Boy and "a volume of the
collected Verse of Rudyard KinpIinE.-
containing the poems in Seven Seas
'Harrack Room Ballads" and ''The Five
Nations"
Sidney Lanier's poems. the Hymns Of
the Marshes" VIII be published this
month. ia a beautifully Illustrated edt-
ton Twenty-one reproductions have
been made from photographs taken espc-
cia!ly for the work in the marshes Of
Glynn. The photographer. 8Ir Tro,h.
spent many days. even weeks. tramp.ng
ana boating around and through the
marshes 20 secure as nearly as possible
the exact scenes described in the poems
Many Of the photographs were taken in
the region OF Jekyl Island. where the
marshes have changed but little in recent
years.
Richard Harding Davis "The Congo
aud the Coasts Of Africa" will Doe pub
lished probably in the near future. This
new book is an account of the authors
adventures and experiences along the
Congo and the coasts Of Africa and will
big game hunting. and outdoor life.
The next volume of the complete works
Of Henrik Ibsen. edited bv William
Archer. will be published in few
days There VIII be eleven volumes In
the set. and this viii be the tenth 10 be
published. II VIII contain Little Eyolf"
John Gabriel Borkman.r and When
We Dead Awaken"
Elizabeth Luther Cary contributes her
third paper Of Notes on William Blake"
Ito the Scrip this month. In the midst OF
the food Of unrestral lned enthusiasm now
poured out about Blake as the deliverer
Of new and ultimate gospel. il is pleas
ant to come across a bit OF serious
criticism Of his work as an artist-iust
as II he were like other artists Miss
Cary is not without understanding OF the
rare qualities of his visionary drawing;
thus:
Fer the rushing, impctuous fight u his little fix
Ures, liberated. he PERSUADE u.s. from the bonds 6f
the hesh-his disembodiCd spirits meeting In heaven
with immortal ardour; his angels and archan-els
descending like a bolt Of lightning upon their i'm
peral errands. his devils cuuIe1ding and s-riding
% and ro upon the earth 90 vCrs injury 10 human
klnd-Biake seems 20 have consulted chiefly that
inner vision 10 whose counsel lie was el01uert
Net even B0tticeh powerfully conyays the sense
OF irresistible movement of an impulse that sends
20 their destination all human and unearthIy me-
s'ngers as arrows are sent TO target and with an
ain as concrete and simple. Certainly none Of the
artists with whose work Blake is known % have
been familiar gave him his model.
In Portsmouth, y. H.. the early home
Of the late Thomas Bailey Aldrich. com
memorated as "Rivermouth" in his books.
q movement has taken rise TO establish
an appropriate and permanent memorial.
a committee Of citizens. headed by the
mayor Of the city has led in the forma-
ton Of the Thomas Bailey Aldrch Me-
mortal Association. which has been or
ganized with the following board Of di-
rectors: Mayor Wallace Hackett, Alfred
GOoding, F. p. KimbaH. c. A. Haslett,
and Wallis d. Walker, Of Portsmouth:
Talbot Aldrich, Charles Eliot Norton
Henry Cabot Lodge. Francis Bartlett.
George II. MiIlin, Thomas Wentworth
HigginsOn. George E Woodberry, Bliss
Perry. and Ferris Greenslet. of Boston;
Samuel L. Clemens, Edmund Clarence
Stedman, Richard Watson Glider. Will
lam Dean Howells, Edward H. Burlin-
game. Henry Alden, and r. Z. Dunno OF
New York; II. W. Mabie, Of Summit. n.
J.: Henry Van Dyke. of Princeton. n. j..
Thomas Nelson Page. Of Washington. d.
c., and s, Weir Mitchell, Of Philadelphia,
Pa.
Readers Of Mr.. Kipling will be glad to
know that his Collected Verse" hith-
erto only available in four volumes. is
to be published this month by Double
day, Page & Co. in one volume All the
poems contained in Seven Seas" Bar
rack-room Ballads" and The Five Ma
tons will be included. Nir. Kipling has
himself revised this collection and added
to 1t other poems hitherto unpublished in
book form.
Lieut. Tadayoshi Sakurai, author Of
Human Bullets, served during the Rus
so-Japanese war with the Twenty-second
Infantry Regiment Of the Eleventh Divi-
sion. and took part in the Port Arthur
campaign, where he was severely wound
ed and permanently lost the use of his
right hand. His book was written to give
the people who stayed at home as com
plete an idea as possible Of the spirit, the
lives and the heroic deaths of the every
day soldiers at the front. 1t is his first