The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-15
Book Reviews
Horace spencer Fiske 81 the Unit

tnTOuSu tne CtIutIOSu COtuP0uy "a ASO0-
ton little volume Of sonnets on things
shakespearean. The book is profusely
illustrated with portraits OF famous
performers in the various roles OF
Shakespcarc's plays and with pictures
Of scenes intimate to the life Of the
Rard Of Avon.
Sixteen sonrcts thcrc are and rs
many illustrations. Tho verse n ct
a high tyne and distinctly the product
OF the scholar that DR.. Fiskc Is. Spe.
cially striking Of the verses Ia the son.
net. "shylock to Salarino." which
reads:
"strong type intense Of vet stronger
race.
That through the centuries Of cease.
less hate
Hath still been proudly mastcrful and
great
We feel the misery Of thy long dis.
grace.
And in the hardness Of that eager face
That unafraid looks In the eye OF fate,
And socks It's deadly vengeance
through the state.
Our common human nature we can
trace.
Alike with Christian hast thou hand
and eye.
And BODY fed with the same daily
food.
And with like pain and poison dost
thou die:
Tr home love wounded by incratitndc---
And round 'hv human heart wild pas
sions fly
or avnricc and hate. a harpy brood"
AS in these lines the words Of
Shakespeare seem to ccho-"Irath not
q jew hands. organs. dimensions ?"-
so 1t Is in others of the verse His
pictures are striking. Witness tho
lines of king Lear on the Heath"
PAIRED ont from all the castles
warmth and light
BY she wolf daughters fierce against
their sire,
And helpless meath their steady crush
ing ire.
Alone he stands amid the crashing
night.
His thin white hair he tears in his
despite:
And as the blackness splits with heay-
ems fire
And pounding thundcrs crack with
menace dire,
His roofless head he prays them swift
to smite."
The volume closes with DR.. Ffske's
famous sonnet. To-day for Me, To.
morrow Death for YOU" reprinted
from the Century magazine. The SON.
net is on the authentic discovery of a
skull in the Stratford -on- Avon charnel
house In 1880. In clearing the house,
n skull was found on which was
painted: "I1odie mihi. cras tibi." The
event Is authenticated by a letter from
a former mayor Of the city who was
present at the time. ID. G.. r.
The raw recruit, Off to the training
camp, breads the dangers Of battle far
less than the embarrassments OF the
awkward squad. Many a brave boy
who laughs at the thought of facing
the enemy's fire quails when he re-
CARDS the prospect of confronting the
drill sergeant. To take this chief hor-
ror out of the rreliminaries of war
captain r. J. Robbins, formerly of the
Twenty third New York infantry and
now a major in the officers reserve
corps. has prepared his Universal Drill
Manual.
The book contains all Of that rou-
tine information which the recruit
needs and probably has not. The tech.
nicalities of drill are stated In detail
and clearly. The manual is a digest
in understandable terms OF five gov
eminent books on the subject. It is
carefully Illustrated, so that the stu
dent may learn the manual before re-
porting for training. The recruit may,
by diligence, escape the horrors of the
hay foot, straw foot" period of drill.
1T has been my observation" says
the author in a foreword. that there is
great need for a volume OF con-
denscd information that is essential TO
the private in the ranks. With this
thought in mind l have compiled, from
strictly official publications. 4 complete
resume of the really necessary and i'm
portant points which should be com.
mon knowledge of every private, both
In times of peace and in active serv-
ice"
The manual has been published by
the Sherwood company. New York, in
pocket form, and is listed at 81.
\ great deal of courage (more than
tradition gives the average publisher
credit for) is required for republication
of a book whose initial reception was
lukewarm. But if library slips and
bookstore reports in Missoula are ba-
rometric. courage was well rewarded
in the case of W. II. Hudson's Green
Mansions.
Perhaps a reaction from the unva-
ried diet of war literature is respon-
sible for the eagerness with which this
fanciful story OF the trackless South
American forests is being read. At
any rate the eagerness Is a fact, as
Mr.. Hudson and. his publishers are no
doubt aware.
Let the reader of Green Mansions
save John Galsworthy's introduction
Tor perusal after the story has been
finished. He will then find his enthu-
SiaSlnS confirmed nv authority R,,t