The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-19
CONE WHO DREAMED

ZONE w EtO DhE4AhiNi1
SONGS AND LYRICS By Arthur crew
Inman The -Four Seas Publishing Com
many. 1888 Dartmouth street, Boston,
Mass.
ar Arthur Crew Inman's book of
"Songs and Lyrics" entitled One VINO
Dreamed" two important critics in the
literary world have given utterance to
the following complimentary phrases con-
corning the merit and attainment of the
book.
William Stanley Braithwaite, editor
of the Anthologies of Magazine Verse,
saws. Sensitive to the external world
of nature this verse interprets moods
and dreams of pure temperament. Il
has color and tone, and simplicity 30
direct that it charms. Poetry is loom
upon which Mr.. Imam weaves the
dreams OF youth.
Henry L. Harmon of the Atlanta jour-
nal says: II envy the bright years thai
stretch before the young author of zone
who Dreamed the glory-colored years
of youth, when hope casts its hottest
glamour across his path Arthur Imam
belongs to that other class of singers
the Keats and Shelley school-wnose
work is fired by the inspiration which
youth and genius alone can put into
song. This first book from his pen, writ
ten before he was q. will mark new
epoch IN southern poetiy.
NATIONAL PROGRESSION -19f7.''
BY Frederic Austin Ogg. with maps.)
Harper Brothers, publishers, New York.
An authoritative and compact history
of the decade, 1907-l9l7, period begin
ming in the middle of Roosevelt's second
term, is Frederic Austin Ogg's book,
National Progress 19O7-1917."
1t meets the need for information
~ III ~<k~x Il
and trustworthy than can be found in
more ephemeral sources. In order to pre- .
sent the cause of events completely It
goes back in some phases to 1900
The author has brought into relief the
events and tendencies of a time of great
unrest and change He has contrasted
the policies of the two parties which have
been in control of the government. He
has brought out the significance of the
relations Of the United States in the Pa
cific. the Caribbean, and the continents
of North and South America. and It's
status TOW ard the European war. He has
kept IN mind the steady growth of ma
tional sense of responsibility, not only
for the United States, but in the affairs
Of the great world.
THE FULL MEASURE OF DEvO-H
TON"
by Dana tIdtiln, 0ouDltudy, Il dSc "
Co, publishers. Garden City. N. Y.
No more beautiful tribute has been
paid to Dana Gatlins charming and
touching little volume. entitled, Tina
Full Measure of DEVOTION. than that
OF Mr.. Charles Hanson Towne the wei
known and widely read editor of Nc
Cures Magazine"
Mr.. Towne pays the following beauti-
full compliment to Miss Gatlin's book:
Il recall no piece of literature--and
Miss Catlin's story. unless ] am greatly
mistaken, is literature-that has SO
brought home to me in these periloas
days what this war shall come to mean
to the mothers and fathers Of America.
The spirit OF noble sacrifice that these
parents in THE Full Measure of De-
votion"-how fine that phrase of Lin
coins is.-felt and kept hidden from
each other brings tears to ones eyes.
and something that we dare not name
into ones heart.
/ wish that every one might read this
little tale. To read it once is to wish
to read it again. and then to pass it on