The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05

1T is not often that book of fictior
calls out poetic tribute from re-
viewer, but Roy Rolfe Gilsons THE
Wistful Years" (the Baker & Taylor
company has inspired the reviewer OF
the Chicago Record Herald to an out
burst of poetry which shows genuine
feeling.
..The wistful Yearsp' the wlstful years.
How wonderful they seem
Glimpsed through mist of tender tears,
Half pageant and half dream
All. Roy Rolfe ellison. here's to you,
And may your shadow gaini
For in your tale so sweetly true,
We live our youth again.
The wistful years! the wistfu years!
These happy lovers know
No more of loves pure joys and fears
Than did long ago;
For us the robins sang no less,
Flowers boomed and moonlight shone;
And for us, too, the dire distress
When one must walk alone.
The wistful years. the wistful years!
They may be far away.
But when this book completion nears
They seem but yesterday
For love is always fresh and fair,
And faith is ever new;
SO for this joy we all may share;
Roy ellison. here's to you
The 10 great names in the literature
of America, according to Prof. Bar
rett Wendell in his book, The Mystery
of Education and Other Academic Per-
formances," are Irving, Cooper, Bryant,
Poe Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell.
Holmes, Whittier and Hawthorne
A new volume by Rudyard Kipling
has just been added to the Outward
Bound edition" of his works published
by Charles Scribner's Sons, called "Ac-
tions and Reactions" This new vol
ume, the only complete uniform edition
of Kipling's works, will contain eight
new stories and a number of new poems
not before brought together in avail
able form. This book can be purchased
aside from the regular subscription
edition.
Suffragettes made their first appear
ance in politics, says Prof. Frank Abb
bott of Princeton university in his
Society and Politics in Ancient Rome
in 1876 B. c. The occasion for their
rise was the cruel Orphan law forbid
ding women ito have more than half
an ounce of gold, to wear particol-
ored garment or to ride in chariot
within the city or within a mile of it
except for religious purposes This
was too much to be endured and the
maids and matrons of Rome rose in
their wrath and stormed the forum
very much as the suffragettes of Lon
don recently stormed parliament, and
'blocked UP all the streets of the city
and the approaches to the forum, i'm
portuning men as they came down to
the forum to vote for the restoration
of their rights."
Ralph D. Paine, author of college
Years." is a Yale classman Of 1894. He
was member of the university crew
and football teams while at college.
1t is interesting to note that Maurice
Hewlett, author of open Country"
who has given up writing romances OF
medieval times for the novel of to.
day, does not agree with the theory
held by many that the people of me-
dieval times acted the same and
thought the same as, and were funda-
mentally and essentially like, the peo-
pie of today. II want you to remem-
Der just one thing said Hewlett in
recent interview, and that alone will
show how different their mode OF
thought must have been. / refer to
their familiarity with death, which is
a point of view absolutely unknown to
us; thye couldS not open a door, they
could scarcely walk along the street
without seeing dead body. A man
separated from his friends and in half
an hour one or the other dies in a tav-
ern brawl or stabbed in a dusky street,
in a quarrel defending a woman's hon
or. Don't you see what a difference
that must have made? Life must have
been lived quicker, vitality must have