Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

'Idih mas iipt hlSupIolHlcu liltiiI.t ilbN
the prize shield was won and the honor
of the academy maintained makes n
truly thrilling story.
Riley Songs OF Home BY James
WhitcOmb Riley. illustrated by VIII
Nawtcr Uniform with Riley Child
Rhymes. The Dobhs- Merrill company,
Indianapolis No poet in our language
is richer in the milk Of human kind
ness than IS James Whitcomb Riley.
The new collection of his poems
known rs Songs of Home is particular
~ illustrative of this trait. so much
so that one Is tempted to push tho
figure farther ana to speak Of the
poems in this book as representing the
very cream of family love ana follow
ship. thick country cream of the pas
turcd rather than the pAstcuri2cd va"
riety. Home" IS Il great word, and
no one has sounded ii more deeply or
sung its beautiful meaning more
worthily than has Mr.. Riley. In this
book the reader finds over half
hundred OF this poets harpiest. most
characteristic songs. songs of the soil
and the sky and OF the plain people
living between the two in farm and
village. There are songs about "homc-
folks and ''chccry words" ana friend
ship ana trundc- beds and courage and
patience. the practical things of every
day lives and tho simple virtues that
MAKE lh'Sc ives p"au,iiui' -N"L az u
me poems art III u'aleu' i,','rr ~, a.
SopulN NUMBER afc not rchiiiluiiH
us of how much and how well Mr.
fllcN mas written o"SiuS w
speech OF his native HoOsicrdom. OF
these theic are Hh,I ~ it'i ~
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mentioned ihuiVid"aiiE TIT l o1,G, :.
w lihhds' no biarS tilS = my
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our tinnd TO Ne. ierSnhal lltiri
cnce VIII doubtless lhake vary ms
choices among my r'S' ~ ~ ,,l
pcai OF THESE must pc TO ~
songs OF home. WIN p,ctutSS y. w"
nItwt"r; - "nt'o III mtt,' ,,'o
iieid cdi'ioi' VI 'hc po't WI ~
The Century Edition OF the Lady Of
the Lake, by Sir Waiter scott. Bart
with many Illustrations in color by
Howard Chandler Christy The Bobbs-
Merrill compnny. Indinnapolis The
hold simplicity, the strong, piCtur-
osque colorinE, the easy flow of meas
IRE and the spell of the poets thcmo
now the softncss Of love and again
the rude clnlnOr of war. long also Sc
cured for the poetry of Walter Scott
n particularly wide. popular audience.
Other poets as grcat--pcrhaDS greater
than he--havc failed to charm the
ear of the thousands rs he has done,
the ear of high and low alike, OF the
longer poems Tho Lady Of the Lake is
easily the most loved for the eXccp-
tional beauty ana romance Of its sub
ject, its spirited power of narrative
and the loneliness of the songs includ-
ed In the longer range of the success
s!ve cantos This poem has always been
days OF books ana those rev n"ch
chcriShcd' II "lt.ii i""itn P'"st "H'
the cupboard SholI pesinc Sh'ih,-
spearc's plays me l'lhle 'no i'llsrl'l
Pr"Ercss IL Is 'iucen II storrh1use o.
beauty NO poem IS more nlclodious VI
measure or more enchanting III VI"
scenes 1t depicts. glamor porn OF
rough cr;lgs ana OF purple 'hiNls' OF
plaid ana tartan ana bonnet ana
pibroch, takes us captive from the
moment when. the preliminary StoiITas
addressed 10 the ancient 'tiarp OF inc
North concluded, III" romance ttsclt
begins in the incomparapic INES:
The stag at eve had drunk MS MI
Where danced the moon IN Mohahs
rili
And deep his midnight lar hau maze
In lone GlcncnrtncS' nhHcl Silnur.