Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-23

the present volume he runs the gamut OF
his pipings from patriotic chants to
America to dialect doggerel, and all of 1t
distinctly Rileyish.
THE HAPPY PRINCESS; and Other
Poems By Arthur Dawson Ficke.
Boston: Small. Maynard & Co.
Mr.. Ficke has an obsession for the
east, which, under the general title "Pil-
grim Verses" he glorifies and interprets.
His Brahma is a true poem Of great
imaginative vigor. His volume Is made
up of these verses, a section Of Poems"
which are not more poetic than the
verses and the Happy Princess, an am
bilious effort in five books. There Is
unquestioned poetry in the work, though
the inspiration seems rather from schol-
arShip than living.
THE FIRE DIVINE. By Richard Wat
son Glider. New York: The century
Company.
This new volume from Mr.. elders
pen is his ninth, and takes its title from
written to be read at a reception to
Miss May Sinclair, author of that re-
markable novel, 1.-The Divine Fire"
given to her at a private house in New
York during her visit to this country
year ago last winter. 1t includes the
poems written by him since the issue of
his I'm the Heights more than sixty
new poems. The volume is diversified in
subject and in treatment, ranging from
poems in the strictest form to such prose-
poems or chants as 1.-THE Whisperers."
There's No Place Like the Old Place"
THE Valley of Life" and TN Watch
man on the Tower" Among the poems
are memorial verses on Carl Schurz,
George Macdonald. Josephine Shaw Low
ell. Mrs Putnam jacob. Emma Lazarus,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich and others; GER
tain of the authors recent poems on
musical subjects which have appeared
in his collection. "A Book Of Music" but
not in the regular series of his poetical
volumes along with several new poems
on music: also poems entitled THE Fire
Divine" Before the Grand Jury"
Spare Me My Dreams" Blame"
Invisible" ETC., and perhaps the most
| important poem in the new volume) "Un-
der the Stars, a Requiem for Augustus
Saint-Gaudens.
sEMITONEs. By A. A. c. New York:
Brentanos.
| An exqustely made little volume. dedi-
Gated to Stedman as poet, philosopher
and man Of letters, which arouses inter-
est and conjecture. 1t contains lines
| which appeared as early as 1887 and
sonnet published in 1904. Forty years of
poetic fancy, life lived with the in
spiration of culture, nature and travel
The kind Of impulse to poetry which finds
expression in sonnets and triolets, and
which at times breaks into real II some
what artful lyricism. There is critical
| Judgment in these verses as In the title
! the exactness and finish OF the little
| poems being in no sense Imperfect by
any discordant clash. The violining is
| done with mute.
THE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.
| Collected and Edited. with critical
introduction and notes, by Edmund
Clarence Stedman and George Ed
ward Woodbury.. New York: Duff
| field & Co.
This edition of the poems of Poe is dis
tinctly definitive. 1t is at once scholarly
monument and a loving tribute to the
melancholy methodist, whose poetry
transcends in certain qualities the genius
of his nation. Mr. Stedman has intro
duced the volume with piece Of that in
terpretative criticism which has made
him the leader in America of poetic
analysis and appreciation. With more
| than a hundred pages of notes and va
RANTS the volume surpasses in COM
pleteness any previous edition of the
poets work.
THE PRODIGAL; and Other Poems.
i BY Peter Macarthur. New York:
| Mitchell Kennerly.
4 Mr.. Macarthur sends forth a modest
volume containing poems which have al
ready received the approval of publica-
ton In the best magazines. The title
comes from a sonnet celebrating the
return of boyhood dreams to the slave of
other sonnets of the volume, which,
however, do not completely measure the