The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-20

| one Of Whose s%equential love lyrics
bears title. Prom the Woolworth
Tower" as does one Of SARA TEAspALE's
in Rirers to the Sea Macmillans).
There are many little lyrics in this COL
lection that sparkle memorably from
a single facet:
Strephon kissed mo in the spring,
Robin In the fall.
But Colin only looked AZ me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was los; In jest,
Robins lost in play.
But the kiss In Collins eyes
Haunts me night and day.
In The Song Of Hugh Glass Mac
m%illans) JoHN G. NEIHARDT has written
something like an epic of pioneer days
in the West. The story that forms
the core of the poem is suggested I'm
~Chittendcn's History of the American
Fur Trade" and affords an excellent
Vehicle for the true theme of the
poem. the courage and trials and sue
cesses OF the conquerors of the will
derness:
The year vas eighteen hundred twenty
Twas when the guns that clustered at
the Rec
Had ceased TO bras. and ten score mar
tisl clowns
Turned from the unwhipped Aricara towns.
Earning the scornful laughter Of the sioux.
a whitening blast the arid south 'till blew.
And creeks fSn thin beneath the glarins
For twas "a month ere honking geese
would ny
Southwark before the Great white Hunt
er's face:
And many generations Of their race.
As bow nune arrows. now have fallen
spent.
I, ha opened then that Major Henry went
with eighty trappers up the dwindIine
Bound through the weird, unfriendins bar
For where the Big Horn meets the Vel
iows,one:
And Old Hugh 0iass went with them.
Mr.. Neihardt revives in grown W
Americans the boyhood delight in tales
Of life and adventure Oh the plains
when Indians and buffalo roamed owe
them. free and wild,
In Ashes and Spdrks tThe Centur!
:. Company RICHARD WIGHTMAN weave'
, the stuff Of daily life. hopes and Tears
: and moods OF man and nature. int
verse that has Tilt. In THE Exposl'
ton he INDUCES n playful fancy
whose cleanness saves 1t from irrever'
n ence:
she and I wen. TO 1.-THE Big Fair, "
were the whole Attendance
II was all under one roo<. which wa
called the sky.
! Every day this was rehued BY Invisible
brushes. g'"rlous'y.
I And a. night all ~; by countless lights
. star shaped.
, And arranged curiously IN the form OF DIP
per, and things.
II must have cost a fortune In some kin
OF rare coin
To do T. that way
We d,dn'; sec the Manager AZ all.
! HI, there must have been one aroun
there
To arrange all this ana look after 1t
@ And We didn't pay anything to set IN
i Our hearts invited us.
I America has to-day no poet who :
:. truly answers in SO many phases tn
4 mul,iplex tests of the poet: who. j
one word. combines the natural gil
e of song with tho painfully acquire
z mastery OF art in 50 satisfactory de
D gree as does GALE Yo'NG RICE. who's
Earth aud .Ncw Enrh IDoubleda!
II Page continues evenly his tradition
:. Mr.. Rice is the American Noyes; bot
. poets. perhaps eN"e'led 10y a contem
y porary here and there in one require
: ment Of their art. excel ~ the comprt
= hensive view. and both are eeni(iSe
= Of the robust order. voluminous pro
ducers. Given quality. sustained an
wide ranging composition is a fair an
" reasonable test of poetic power.
some good ringing ballads are III
: best things in HELEN GRAY CoNE's
chant Of Lore for England. and ON,
Il Poems ,DuttonI. There * IA heaut,
after all is said, u%nreached forever
II says BEN.AMrN Il. &. Low in Tn
House That Was. and other Poem
h ,Lane): the beauty that fingers aft'
Il music. and the beauty thai lies &c
% often just beyond the poets Grasl
That beauty Mr.. Low seeks, and y
- fruit of his quest Is a volume of Ner'
/, delicate but substantial. In VILLA
ALEXANDER PERCy's SGppho in L'rh'
yale University rress) there Is a
the youthful fervor. the poetic Nisic
that made Rupert Brooke beloved
l., those who love poetry, Il none OF Il
g~rossness that blurred some "f q
~ young Embellishments well wrong
r. verse. Mr.. Percy shows that HI know
AZ that rhymcd INC metercd socialism
,s not poetry. He can ne serious withoi
~ cynicism. has a fine lyric quality al
of the sustained power that comes ON
lc with a natural medium Of %uttcranc
70 all of which tode well for his poe,