The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30

Thy beauty in the market place.
 "The Air Voyage Up the Hudson'
 written on witnessing from Battery park the first flight made by Wilbur Wright in his aeroplane from Governors Island to Grants tomb, on the morning of Oc- tober IA, 1909, is also in the first group.
 The second group contains charming lyrics on a great variety of subjects and virile sonnets to eminent men such as Charles Eliot Norton, Francis James Child, George Pierce Baker, William
 Vaughan Moody, George Gray Barnard and others.
 Mr. Mackaye has already been recog- nized by the critics as one of the leading poets of this country. The present vol lime demonstrates his ability to a still greater degree, proving that those who forecasted for him a successful future were right.
 "Poes The Raven' Longfellow's The
 Courtship of Miles Standsh.' and Whit
 tiers Snow Bound '' English texts
 Charles P. Merrill Co)
 It certainly is a convenience-and a
 service as well-in the study of Poe, I,ongfellow and Whittier to have in one volume the most characteristic poem of each, "The Raven" "The Courtship of
 
 poems required by some colleges for ex- aminations in English
 In this volume the student or general
 reader can peruse each poem with it's introductory biographical sketch and criticism together with the explanatory notes. In this way, too. the reader or student, as the case may be, can very readily compare the three distinctive styles and appreciate each poets individ- uality This Is a decided gain over the detached study of each poem or each poet in the usual fashion. It is sort of correlation that may be extended to ad- vantage
 This volume is edited by Charles Rob- ert Gaston, Ph D., instructor in English, Richmond Hill High school, New York city. Dr. Gaston's editing shows not only thorough familiarity with his subject. but an appreciation of the young stu dents point of view. The examination | questions on the text will undoubtedly save the teacher both time and effort l This book like all Merrill's English l Texts is in small, attractive size, with large type and open page and is H. lustrated with half-tone portraits of Poe Longfellow and Whittier.
 | Maybe after a few more of the univer- | sities of this country and abroad get to | demanding study of the genius Poe and i his works those lofty brows on Manhat- 1 tan Island will in time be forced to per- I init him in the Hall of Fame-althoueh
 as 1t may heretofore have been remarked | you never can tell.
 | 'More's History of the States. United and Otherwise by Judge Charles F. | Moore. (Neale Publishing Co) | A majority of the readers of "Gulliver's S 1 Iravels'-ft Is safe proposition to 1 state, a 1000 to shot-do not know that
 the book is a political satire They laugh l over Gulliver's experiences, not seeing | beneath that famous travellers untoward
 adventures the lambent irony of the , greatest of English satirists. Not only l that, but those Bromides referred to- 1 making up the majority of people in the world-not only do not recognize the sa-
 tire mentioned, but if by slip of chance. l faint glmmer of intelligence, say, they l did Christopher-Colu the undertak l ing, they would consider 1t either very
 bad form, possibly immoral to disclose anything; other people hadn't caught the
 satire, you know. therefore there must be
 either something very bad about it or it 1 isn't there
 "Moore's History of the States. United
 and Otherwise, is very good piece of
 satiric writing. but you can laugh all the
 way through 1t and see nothing-if YOU ! prefer it that way.
 That distinguished historian, Dietrich I Knickerbocker began his History of l New York" with divers ingenious theo-
 ries and philosophic speculations concern | ing the creation of the world"
 Judge Moore, following precedent be- l gins with the beginning. something like l this:
 '.The United States consists of certain | nf To
 and mud scattered over this and the
 other side of the globe"
 | Having started with the beginning. l Judge Moore proceeds to the end-the end l being the discovery of the North Pole.
 that big nail about which Dr. Cook
 worked us up so and then Charlie Rossed. | Judge Moore is of the opinion that dis | coveries and settlements are all well
 enough-countries have to begin that 1 way, but as he remarks, "One cannot 1 speak from personal experience of all that has transplred in period covering more than four centuries" Hence his "heavy work begins with the first Me- kinley administration. He has heard of Alexander Hamilton, "the author of many of his own writings, as well as some of
 the best speeches Washington delivered" but in 1896 it Is mo hearsay." ''It is not an unusual thing for a man to make ms marx, put In the case of
 Mir Mckinley it was different His mark
 made him." says Judge Moore pleasantly launching us rapidly of into "our own times" Y f , Judge Moore writes of the Spanish war of the democratic convention in which Bryan, the disappearless leader made his maiden speech to a since long suffer- ing party" of Tammany control tbe reign of King Theodore and so on Judge Charles Forrest Moore. a West Virginian by birth, virginian by nature and a New Yorker by practicable prac tice of the law-has been prominent in the councils of his party for years There is one thing at least regarding Judge Moores history. in writing if he was not overawed by human deeds however great" not subdued by his
 toric characters however 'illustrious.