Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-22

are unheeded, and youth goes on its
own headstrong way. But after loved
ones have passed away, those who re-
main ponder over what the departed
have said and done, and unconscious
ly do the things they wished either
to do themselves or to have done.
Ofttimes mans great dream in life,
cut short by an early death and be-
moaned by friends, is carried on to
greater perfection by some one infu-
enced by the words or ideals of him
who, being dead, yet speaketh."
Poetry.
POEMS BY Chester Firkins. Boston. Sher-
man French & Co. 800.
The death of Chester Firkins last
year brought to sudden end his
short and brilliant career as a journal
ist and poet. The verses presented in
this volume are a selection from a
much larger number which have ap-
peared during the last twelve years
in magazines as diverse in type as
the Atlantic Monthly" and "Puck,"
and in representative newspapers of
the middle west and New York City.
Both subject matter and method of
treatment vary as greatly as do the
publications to which the author was
a contributor. The poems range from
the highest plane of lyric imagination
to the extreme Of nonsense verse.
They naturally divide themselves into
four groups; poems of city life, poems
of the northwest, poems of childhood
and humorous verse.
SHIPS IN PORT. BY Lewis worthinEton
Smith. New York g. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.26 net.
A book of glowing colorful verse,
now vibrant with deep organ tones OF
emotion, now inspired by the wild
breath of salt-laden gales that sweep
over tumultuous seas, and again,
singing of the cracking warmth of
a winter hearth. Verse of varied ap-
peal and distinctive form.
POEMS OF PANAMA. By George War
burton Lewis. Boston. Sherman. French
q Co. 800
This is a book that was first lived
and then written, and that is why the
poems throb with swift-running red
blood. The verse presents in rhyme
that is different the life-story Of a
son of wanderlust-the rhythm and
swing of which take you captive and
bear you along with the poet-adven-
turer for nearer view of the wonder
full places where he has been and the
things which he has done.
VOLTS BANE. By John Cowper Powys.
Robert Rutter Son. New York. l.S
In these remarkable poems Mr..
-Powys strikes a new and startlingly
unfamiliar note; their interest lies in
the fact that they are the unaffected
outcries and protests of soul in ex
lie, and their originality is to be found
in that they sweep aside all facile
and commonplace consultations and
give expression to the natural and
incurable sadness of the heart of man.
FLAsHLraHTs BY Mary Adds New York.
Duffield q Co. 11.2b.
A volume of verse, much of it in
the newest forms and of the most
modern tone, together with other
metrical experiments which show Mr..
Aldis's appreciation for conventional
verse, also. The collection, in sub
ject matter and in treatment, makes
very striking contribution to the
modern poetic renaissance.
Miscellaneous.
PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT By Frank ]. Goodnow.
New York Harper q Bros. $500.
The writer is an authority of in
ternational reputation, who it will be
remembered was invited to China by
the government to draw up consti-
tuition. This book is not only a COM
prehensive statement of the subject
but it is clearly and Interestingly
written. 1t is based on lectures which
were delivered in the year 19l3-l914
before the students of the Peking uni
versity. The author has been led to
publish them in book form because
of his belief that they might possibly
contribute toward the answer to the
question:: what are the essentials OF
constitutional government"
ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE. By James
Marchant. New York. Harper Bros.
$500.
In this book for the first time the
interesting and historic correspond
ence between Darwin and Wallace is
given in full. The reader will see not
only how each of these great minds
travelled by parallel, but Independent
roads, toward the momentous discov-