Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-02-19
Entered at the Monterey postoffice as
second class matter
rlonterey, Va. Friday, Feb.lo, 1909
Into the School of Life Highland

names are added to the "Honor-
Roll" In fact, so accustomed has
she become toreports of distinction,
merit and honor, that theopposite
is the rare exception and that
which occasions surprise. The
heights to which they have climb
ed, the distinction won, the honors
bestowed tend to reflect credit up
on their native county and cause
their mountain mothers to feel
proud of them. She has her d. DIS.
successfully occupying fields of use
fulness; her NJ. DIS she numbers by
the dozen; her legal lights are
shining throughout the States; her
contribution to the field OF peda-
gogy is measured by positions we'll
filled in seminary and college; and,
passing with mere mention, the
scores and hundreds throughout the
land, treading humber walks, to be
sure, but alarge per cent OF them
true men and Of good report, we
want to call attention to bright
light which has flashed up" on
the Pacific slope and which prom
ises to cast its rays across the
continent:
We have on our table little vol
ume entitled 1.-THE Parchment and
Other Poems" by R. A. S. Wade,
the California Poet" so designat-
ed by the publishers, and who pre-
dict that his fame is assured by
this published volume.
we are no professional critic
make no pretentions along that line
nor have we any reviewers ia
ble," but we have "sized up" the
little book to our own satisfaction.
1t was written by a Highland boy,
whose birthplace, near Mill Gap,
our older readers were doubtless
able to fix as soon as the name was
read. He left here in early man
hood, and some insight into his life
may be gotten from his wn "Fore-
word" in the little book. Hesays:
"This volume was written, not for
publication, but to while away the
idle hours spent in caring for an in
valid companion. At the solicita-
ton of a gentleman in the East,
himself an author well-known IN
literary circles and among scholars
throughout the country as a force
full writer of good books, decided
to publish it. The indulgence OF
the reader is therefore asked mas
much as the book is publishedlarge-
ly for circulation among personal
friends"
If the author meant these words
as any sort of an apology for hav-
ing taken quaff at the fountain of
the MUSES., it was, in our humble
judgement, uncalled for, because,
while we are incompetent to criti-
else poetical work, we know a
good thing when we see it, and we
find in this little volume that met
rical, rhythmical jingle which pleas
es the car Of the prosy novice, and
we cannot see that it is lacking in
beautiful sentiment, conception or
imagination. The authors inter-
est in his forefathers has, in past
wears, led him to make thorough
research, and the results have been
interesting and profitable no less to
him than to his legion of kin in
Highland. In his John of Ty-
rome" he spurs his Pegasus into an
cestral ages and calls upon the
first known progenetor to
"Come out of the silence, come I'M
to your own,
And tell us the tales in your
keeping"
In fact, dreams of long ago seem
to pervade the verses of this son of
Highland, and we venture to say
that the remaining boys and girls
of his day will be able to read be-
tween the lines, and will recognize
more than one familiar name
and incident. Unfortunately, rot
many of these remain to enjoy the
reading, the lips that pressed the
"Old Dinner Horn" being silenced
forever, and none left at 1.-THE