The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Nv A ID. JACOBSON.

Nv A ID. JACOBSON.
TIE GARDEN OF LIFE. By Ann Richardson
Talbot Boston-Sherman. French Co. Price
IS cents.
MANY of these verses have already ap-
peared in the columns of the Independent
Good Housekeeping. and other magazines.
The selections here gathered nave peen
confined TO short poems in those common
things that are still uncommon-birth,
love. death-the commonest of all things,
vet they come to each one. the greatest
of all-mysterious, wonderful. terrible
The simplicity o. the verses Is exquisite,
the ouintessence of charm. and bit OF
gentle humor comes TO the surface oc-
casionally to relieve too serious tension.
Their brevity leaves nothing unsaid.
The poetical work is done carefully ana
well, with due regard to the laws OF YER
styling Hitching meters and hating
rhymes are strictly eschewed. There are
the same qualities in the serene faith and
quiet beauty of the book that distinguish
the violet from the sunhower. So sane
and sunny a point of view cannot fail
10 smooth the wrinkles of care.
The volume includes The Garden of
Life "A Broken Promise silence"
"A Dream "A Home Forsaken," MY
Debt" AT Parting" "Homeward." Just
Glad ITO Mona Lisa" MY Own. All
God Forbid ''Ingratitude," Youth, In
silence .Jure Divine" Not Came"
The Lesson" Go kindly Forth MY
Muse" Just One Word More,
Prayer" The Unseen Shore The Pass
ing of the Ship sleep Well"
THE prRGE OF THE SEA CHILDREN: By Ken
meth Rand. Boston-Sherman, French Co.
Price. 81.
The lit of the gypsy song along the
road, the hail of wood and field. the
moan of the wind-whipped sea under a
lowering sky, and the reckless BOAST OF
the wild sea rover call tantalizinsiy mere.
The debonaire camaraderie OF the gypsy
verse signals the drop of wild blood in
the veins as the sight of pussy willows
in a crowded city brings the first rest
less longing of spring to be up and on
and away.
The author has a SwinSurnean ten
dency to the marine in his verse. his
songs of the sea, whether sad or merry.
have the fascination of the primitive ana
rIntamibIe With a rare instinct for the
riqht word in the right place, he crystal
lies the moods of the ocean-her placid
loneliness, her white, merciless fury, and
the siren call that from the beginning
of time has never failed to bring ne"
devotees to her altar The Red Ro-
nance The Sea Tramp. and other
songs of sailor life bring back the thrlli
Of the bold and fearless buccaneer VINO
venture and of hapless crews to Walk
the plank There are, too. poems more
conventional in subject and treatment
poems Of love and tragedy, summer rams
and gently falling leaves. Their majesty
is srirnly real. their happiness puoganI'
The theme OF each poem Justines lts
form, and the work is free from EARRING
y-ords or meters which might interrupt
endowment Many of the poems have ap-
reared in Yale Literary Magazine LIP
nincott's Adventure and other maya
lines where they have proved welcome
to those interested in good poetry.
Mr. PRATT's PATIENTS. By joseph Q L Lincoln nc
D APPLETON & Co. New York Frlce' S--'".
M lincoln. in this book. brings to our
notice again an old friend-Mr. Pratt
the iolly old Cape Cod fisherman, and
We soon find the aforesaid Mr. Pratt
mixed up in more ludicrous adventures
rhan fall to the lot OF ordinary mortais.
The Jolly old fisherman drifts quite pS
accident up to the moorings OF 'he
breeze Bluff Sanatorium for Right LiN-
ing and Rast, and by means of a series
of adventures, in which. against Two
men and a bulldog-and it's quite Dull
dog. too-he proves his capabillty' ana
gets himself added TO the stan OF the
sanatorium. A great many things nap
men thereafter, including the exposure
90 Higbt of DR.. Lysander T. Wool, the
massive and ponderous head of the IN
stitution.
Not much is required of the reader OF
this book except to laugh, ana then
laugh again at some of the quaint ana
pcssitle specimens of human nature eN-
plotted therein.
TEF ,RysNAL BRUTE: BY Jack London. The
Century Company. Price. SIS.
This is for the most part a prize hsht
story II tells how Pat Glendon, trained
bv his father, an eX-prize hghter, comes
ont Of the mountains clean and strong
to clean up the fighting game with
single punch--and he does II, too.
Rather an unusual character but
s+rictIv lack Londonesque: for when not
engaged in fighting he attends bro"h-
ing lectures. and, contrary TO usual
training rules, on the eve of battle you
will find him at the library or at home
reading Shakespeare: but he puts MS
man out with one punch just the same.
A love story accompanies the MAN
theme, and Pat Glendon wins the girl
in the same fashion that he wins MS
fights-with one punch and a knockout.
meta phorically speaking. The Jack Lon
don cult will surely approve OF the story;
the others will not
POEMS: By Herbert Kaufman. George q. Doran
& Co. New York. Price, SIS
A collection Of poems, some of which
have already appeared in various mag
azines, and which is now issued in book
form.
Mr. Kaufman cannot be accused Of be-
ing a mollycoddle, and his work is "ex-
tremely'' realistic. The burden Of his
poems is the same as that of his prose
hooks-white slavery. They appear TO
have been written upon an anvil with
a sledgehammer.
The author is a well-known radical in
his reform ideas. He calls a spade
spade and nothing else.
why Are You Weaping. Sister,"
THE Waiting Woman II Have Piped
and Ye Did Not Dance" Five Dollars
a Week. and wolf of the Night are
all poems of just such strength. while
The Drone" reads as though ii had
been inspired by Mr.. Roosevelt's views
on race suicide.
can hardly. with any regard for the
proprieties, recommend this collection of
poems for promiscuous circulation ex-
cepting among people of firm morals and
of legal age.
LITERARY NOTES
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