The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01

DIR. VIM. Osler. professor of medi-
cine at oxford university, wrote: ct
have read some of your poems with
great interest. Good luck to you"
DIR. John P. d. John, formerly pres
ident of Depauw university; Your
verses are very beautiful and truly
poetic"
Charles F. Johnson, professor of
English literature in Trinity college:
1T find many of your verses, the SON.
nets especially, have the true poetic
vision and 1 read them with pleas
ure."
But after all it is the poems them
selves rather than endorsements of
literary men which will determine the
success or failure of the author.
While Ambassador Bryce makes
special reference to 1.-THE Last Jour
ney," which by the way Is the last
poem in the little volume. 1t is the first
one in the book, a sonnet entitled
Opportunity" which will probably
be most favorably received by the av-
erage reader. 1t is given herewith:
For man came 1 upon this mundane
sphere;
A gift of Gods eternal love am 1;
/ live to serve the human race; the cry
OF those who seek me will ever hear.
When man awakes each morn 1 then
appear,
And silently about him hover nigh
Till sable wings of night from dark
ened sky
Spread DER the earth and day bids
him good bye.
To those poor souls who think in life's
brief race
come but once, I cry in thunder
ing tones.
Awake! We sleep! We dream! Behold
my face!
To you I'm ever near-then cease
your means,
And grasp me! Use me! / am yours
to make
Your lives sublime: think not for me
to wait,
One can give in brief review at
best but an Indifferent idea of DR..
Hinkle's poetry. 1t expresses a depth
of feeling and a facility which may in
dictate that he will yet attain a place
in the front rank.
eral years and graduated from the
Kansas Medical college several years
ago at the head of his class Since
then he has been practicing medicine
at Stockton and writing poetry when
his muse moved him.
1t is a very rare thing for the politi-
cal opinions of a presidential nominee
to be found in book form on the eve of
election. but such is the case in -Four
Aspects of Civic Duty" by Hon. Will
liam Howard Taft, ex-secretary of
war and Republican nominee for the
presidency. Any politician or layman
by reading this book can find out ex-
actly what the probable next presi-
dent thinks of parlor socialists, prac-
teal politics. property rights. muck
rakers, the attitude of the citizen to-
ward the president, the Philippine
islands, and all other important ques-
lions Of the day. Published by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Meredith Nicholson, author Of The
House of a Thousand Candles and The
Port of Missing Men, was recently Of
fered a position and salary by a prom
inent theatrical manager, his duties to
consist solely of devising alluring titles
for plays. Mr.. Nicholson. contrasting
the peace and quiet of the farm on
which he is spending the summer with
the nervous excitement and heart
burning that attend the naming OF
anything literary or theatrical re-
specially declined the job of Official
Nomenclator.
An appreciation of dorado Taft
'sthe most prominent of our western
sculptors," by Henry B. Fuller, with
reproductions of his group, 1.-THE
Blind" and details therefrom. will be
q feature Of the Midsummer Holiday
number OF The Century.
Mr.. Cleveland's recent death gives
additional timeliness to a modest lit
tie volume which is bound to attract
an amount of attention quite out OF
proportion to its size. This is former
President Cleveland's book entitled
GOOD Citizenship" which has JUS
been issued by the Henry Altemus
Company OF Philadelphia This boob