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Amy LoweU'S Virtuosity

If Amy Lowell would use her un-
doubted gifts in writing poetry after
European models instead of fashioning
her verse on the models of China and
Japan she would be read by men and
women who have no use for her verse
now. But perhaps Miss Lowell does
not care for that kind of popularity.
1t must be assumed that she does not
or she would not persist
Her latest volume, pictures of the
Floating World" contains the verse
which she has written during the last
hve years that did not seem appropriate
to be published either with MEN,
Women and Ghosts or with Can
Grande's Castle" They are imagist
pieces, that is, they have been written
IN the attempt to create the impression
OF a picture in the mind. As such
they are beyond criticism. Miss Lowell
has succeeded in attempting to do what
she undertook. There is a small grouu
of admirers of the new poetry whose
members will regard what she has writ
time. Wv
|. The rest of us, however. while ad T.
mlrlng the virtuosity of the brilliant
Boston woman. will regret that sbe
ana not try to do something which
would appeal to a less restricted circle
PICTURES OF THE FLOATING worm
BY Amy Lowell New York, rrhe NJ
mllIHn Company 81 10 " -iNN
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A NEW DAVID HARUM
"The Touch of Abner" De-
HghtfuI in Drollery

David Harum will be the first thought
that comes to mind in reading "The
Touch of Abner." by II. A. Cody.
The author has hitherto been known
mostly for his novels of the western
thrill school of fiction, but he is very
adept at the bucolic and rural on the
testimony of this novel, which has rus
tic humor and lot of sound sense ms
well. 1t moves along at a lively clin
from the moment when the titular hero
subscribes cool thousand to the or
phanage fund in n tight, not to say
near, community. He hasn't anything
like that much money and no way OF
getting 1t, but he has his nerve and
his wits. His wife does all the worry
ing. but Abner does the trick
This is no mere b'gosh novel at all,
and as piece Of literary craftsman
ship it has David Harum beaten all
over the ten acre lot. The characteri
cations are shrewdly observed and put
believnbly on the page and the situa
tionS do not strain credulity. A village
Shylock is nicely thwarted in Abner' $
process of making good the donation
Tor the orphanage fund and shaming
tight listed neighbors to lend a helping
hand. There is treasure in the soil
of the old farm, which is discovered
aud preserved as part of the plot But
the humor is, after all. the chief charm.
1t is infectious. And the love story
concerning Abner's girl is also prettily
sentimental without being mushy.
THE TOUCH OF ABNER. Ry II. A. Cody.
XeWo YORK: George il. Doran Company.
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The Beloved Stranger

There is more authentic poetry in
Witter Bynner's latest volume. The
Beloved Stranger" than in anything
else that he has written. This is true
in spite of the fact that much of it is
in free verse. 1t might be called n
love sequence. for love is the theme of
the whole and it is the love of which
which is in conventional form. well il
lustrateS the temper of the whole. 1t
runs:
l will not call you beautiful again.
Though my throat ache with the
silence of refraining,
And not a sigh will I explain
Though my hands fill with explaining.
For you are as beautiful as a hill I
In spring, breathing with light
But as soon as 7 told you. a chill like
snow
Covered and turned you white.
T will not call you beautiful again,
Your labyrinthine loveliness will
not name.
7 will be silent as forgotten men
Dead beyond blame.
No matter how your airs of spring
begule.
Be it my fortitude. my business, my
endeaNor
Not to acclaim the laurel of your smile
Except today, tomorrow and forever :
1t is announced that the book is the
result of a trim to the Orient made by
Mr.. Bynncr in 1916. That may be.
but the re was that in Bynner before he
went to the Fast. which made the book
possible or the Orient could not have
brought it back. As sheer poetry il is
one Of the most notable books which has
anpeared this year. 49,
THE BELOVED STRANGER. BY Wttter
Rynner New York; Alfred A knopf.
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BIG AND LITTLE POETS
OFFER THEIR VERSE TO US
Some Comment the Work Of Richardson Stephen Benet,
Middleton Mcclure Mrs KiInier, Bubene Deutsch,
To,Une and Wheelock

TT is the mode nowadays for Eng
lish men of letters to voyage the sea
(the U-boat peril having been replaced
by that older hazard Of the lady from
Boston in the adjoining deckchair) in
order ESQ they say) to get in touch with
the American poets who are really
worth while. One hears echoes Of their
progress among the literary dinner
tables. Alas, many shy American
poet who might have had the delight of
being discovered by these adventures
from the older Helicon is frustrated by
the rapacious hospitality of our gran
dees. Hugh Walpole, we learn, was
kidnapped from the Mauretania by a
Newport steam yacht before the liner
was fairly berthed. and hailed willy
nilly to the damask naperies of Mar
ragansett while the envoy of his New
York publisher gaped forlornly on the
Cunard line pier.
1t is a pity ESQ one may think who
has the literary rapprochement of the
two countries warmly at heart) mat
our exploring friends are not LETT a little
more to themselves, to wander obser-
gradually forming their own conclu-
sions. Instead. they have thrust upon
them the catchwords of that literary
coterie which happens (by unstinted use
of wireless) to capture them hrst anu
salt them down with wild hospitality;
Amid all the hubbub about Amy LoWeil
and Carl Sandburg and Nachel LIND,
say, amid the clang of crockery ana
the Naturalization of jazz, do our
some writer's whose work is admirably
significant, though little touted! The
American poets who have most to say
to an attentive ear are not always those
who chant loudest at gatherings OF the
poetry societies.
CHANGING over some recent volumes OF
American poetry, one wonders now
many commentators have noticed the
Ntruly exquisite and austerely measured
sonnets of James Edward Richardson
Philadelphian, who sets up his poems
on his own printing press. To read Mr.,
Richardson's book, "The Forest Altar
and Other POEMS" is to meet a mind of
beautiful courage and sensitiveness; a
mind in which one finds the consoling
comradeship of gentle bitterness. In his
tense, shrewd. passion shaken verses
"There CLEANS subtle moment now
and then of perfect apprehension.
William Rose Benet and his younger
brother, Stephen Vincent Benet. are the
Barnum & Bailey of the younger
American poetry. Will Benet's delicious
gift of fantasy is already well known
Stephen Benet, in his young, Adven
ture,' shows the same golden and
priceless heritage of wild, gorgeous
Imagination. WitN this he knits d
supple, gymnastic grace in the sonnet
He is akin at once to Rupert Brooke
and James Elroy Flicker. The com
parison of the two Benets to Messrs
Barnum & Bailey is no mere phrase
Behind the gorgeous pageantry of theil
giddy trapeze work, their gilded cages
of lions and apes, is the CAREFUL!
plotted cunning and precision o.
trained artists. There is no young poe
in America of whom more may be ex'
pected than Stephen Benet. His bril-
liant jets of humor, his Oriental ex
travagance of theme, bis unfalterinI
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British NauaI Record

The first complete account Of the nort
the English navy took in the late war
mas been prepared by Archibald Hurd
and II. II. Bashford. The six leadirS
battles are fully described, the largest
space being given to the important part
the navy took in the conquest of tho
oardanelles. To the coming of the
American, navy and it's work at the
close of the war chapter is devoted
The account includes many letters by
officers and men giving their personal
experiences in many noted Conflicts
Especially stimulating and helpful arc
the many heroic acts of officers and
seamen recorded especially the rescue,
at the risk of their own lives. of the
Germans drowning after the destruction
of their vessels. 4 special tribute it
may be added, is paid to Admiral Sims,
of our American navy, of whom it is
said that 'hiS British colleagues could
have asked for no more able or in -
spiring helper"
NAVY. A short history ofg the naval war
19l4-lalS. BY Archibald Hurd and II. II
Bashford New York: Doubleday. Page 6
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sense of lovely form, are a rare en-
dowment.
Scudder Middleton's 1.-THE New
Day does not quite certify the promise
of his earlier volume the war has borne
n little heavily upon his spirit, for
which, however, one honors him. His
war sonnets seem a little adipose,
though quickened by one noble line
The grace of flesh, the dancer in the
brain.
But he has the seeing eye. One goes
to the poets for n grim realization of
our own sodden cloddishness. There is
so much marvel and ecstasy in life
that they see and most of us miss. The
bend and turn of head, the profile of
city against the dusk, these are the
common counters of daily life. In the
poets inkpot they become immortal
seizures Of beauty and meaning. Mr..
Middleton sees deeply and painfully he
will yet learn to bring his message to us
with irresistible truth.
John Mcclure, of Ardmore, Okla
homa, has adopted simplicity as his
method. Unfortunately, it is studied
and stultitied simplicity. with only an
occasional flash of valuable beauty
Most of his "Airs and Ballads were
written before he was twenty four, and
as he declines deeper into the gulf of
years his sense of humor (Which is
sound if not subtle) will lead him to =.
ward more generous inspiration. He is
akin to some other western poets in
having chosen rather pretentious
oracular utterance for insubstan,ial
musings. A false posture of simplicity
is even more tedious than overadorn-
ment.
Aline Kilmer's Candles That Burn
is exactly what the title implies. Her
lyrics have the true simplicity, the
clear, quiet glow, the serene and
lovely illumination of tapers in twi
light room. They burn for the most
part in the dusk of remembered sor
row, but it is sorrow that strengthens
/ and purifes the heart Mrs. Kilmer's
beautifully varied cadences, the un-
faltering perfection of her music. the
dainty precision of her lines. show hel
as probably the most truly gifted of our
feminine singers. There is a noble
beauty in her little book. Behind the
sense of tears that bushes her utterance
one feels also II quick and ready laugh
ter, delightful humor and irony that
betoken strong and vivid mind.
Babette Deutsch gives us, in Ban.
ners, an unconscious revelation of tn,
contrast between free verse and poetry
In her wild, bacchanalian, ecstatic boot
there are some very fine explosions O.
vers libre, but they seem thin and wirl
compared to her sonnets, which are wei
joined and muscular. She has beer
touched by the Chinese boom which ha
set many weakminded versifers to ad.
miring the shredded translations from
the Orient, but she has the promise o
ripe and mellow stuff with the disciplin,
Of time.
Charles Hanson Towne writes ~
World of Windows" and through thes
clear panes of sound versifying we se
his iridescent and sympathetic sou
brandishing its arms in q pale blu,
ether. ,...
! Mr.. Towne is true poet, but, un
fortunately for his art, too much of !.
poet. He feels the beauty and colo
of the earth so keenly and enters 81
violently into the emotions of humant,
that his utterance grows somewha
oyersugared. Mr.. Towne is one @
! those poets to whom a governments
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ration of intellectual sugar in small
manila envelopes will be helpful and
bracing. But he is always lucid, al
ways bright and honest in technique,
and always reused to the highest pitch
of agreeable excitement by his romantic
themes. One wonders how n man so
stirred by the manifold appeals of beauty
can have remained SO long a bachelor
Safety in numbers, one concludes. Mr.
Towne is unquestionably with Vachel
Lindsay the most rainbow minded
bachelor in America.
John Hall Wheelock, in "Dust and
Light" has written volume Of poetry
of the highest order, and one which
deserves the faithful scrutiny OF every
honest lover of the muse. 1t Is doubt
full whether any man in America can
write better sonnets than Mr.. Wheel
ock. In his lines passion and stricken
apprehension of life's lovely and tor
turing riddles mount upon a fiercey
tempered soberness in expression. Such
poems as he has written in this fine col
lection give one happy opportunity to
forget the shallow absurdities of many
of our younger choir. He has the sense
of words as medicinal sirups for the
human heart. G. NJ.
THE FOREST. ALTAR AND OTHER
POEMS. by James Edward Richardson
Copyright by the author. PHILADELPHIA.
Benet New Haven: Yale University Press
THE NEW DAY. BY. scudder Middleton
: New York: The Macmillan Company 81.
AIRS AND BALLADS, BY John Mcclure.
New York: A.. a; knopf; Ei, ,,r.
New York: George II. Doran Company.
BktNSNSTEiRs BY Babette Deutsch. New
York; George IL Doran Company. 20.
A WORLD OF WINDOWS. BY Charles
Hanson HI Tewne' TeSwSne' George H. D0FS" No'''-
DUST AND LIGHT. BY John !'~.s wheeelock.
New York Charles Scribner Sohs Sl'oo'
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tenant William H. Barter. who paid
the supreme sacrifice, is collection Of
simple minded and simple hearted songs
and ballads richly endowed with
patriotism and strong in homely virtues.
The verses are smoothly written, and
although not great in poetic way. have
grace and charm and inspiration OF
their own.
Captain James Fenimore Cooper,
great grandson of the novelist, likewise
gave his life for his country. His
friends have collected "Afterglow' from
college papers and other sources. the
verses written during his brief lifetime.
He was graduate of Yale, 1913. and
died in February. 1918. Many of the
poems, which cover variety of subjects,
including the war, are simply metric
exercises cleverly composed. but oc.
casionally there is touch of sheer
originality in concept and content, as
in the flashing lines to Ethel Leginska,
the pianist In other words most of
this talented youths verses rework the
material of other mems experiences. the
conventional stuff of the mass of poetry
but in the Leginska poem there is the
vivid illumination of personal knowl-
edge. Without comparing them to the
verses of such ''inheritors of unfull-
filed renown" as Rupert Brook and
Alan Seeger, as Prof. Fl. IA Beers. of
Yale, who writes an introduction
points out, they have qualities that give
promise of future achievement.
THE VILLAGE wIFE'S LAMENT BY
Maurice Hewlett. New York. g. p. Put.
nams Sons.
MY FLAG AND MY BOY. BY William II.
Barter. Poston: The PAGE Company
WAR MOTHERS. BY Edward Garesche
New York: Mensiger Bros.
AFTERGLOW. BY James Fenimore Cooper
New Haven: Yale University Press
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Wur.Inspired Poems

In "The Village Wife's Lament v
Maurice Hewlett has written long
lyrico- narrative poem of love ana thc
war. The general flow is iambic, but
monotony is avoided by skillful sub
stitutions of trochees, cyclic dactyls and
anapests and also by internal rhymes
and variations in the stanzaic scheme.
In meter it is very fluent and easy
to read. In content it tells the reaction
of a country girl first to love of the one
man for her and then to the sacrifices
imposed by the war. Mr.. Hewlett says,
in note appended. that his poem is
dramatic" but it is dramatic only in
the sense, that Browning's dramatic
monologues are dramatic. 1t is the
drama of meditation. and introspection.
In the same note he says the poem
voices his own objection to wars of
aggression. Wars for defense of home,
native land, ones family, he under
stands but war for land lust or i'm
position of any racial or national kultur
he reprehends in this poetic philippe.
He says: 1.-THE village wife knows
nothing of the Germans, however, and
her reproaches strike at the heart of
mankind So long AS mankind looks on
aggressive war as reasonable, il
ultimate appeal, her reproaches will
have force and be deserved" And very
ndubitably this is precisely the attitude
that many starved and robbed women
have of even war waged for civiliza
tion and democracy and freedom--the
distractions are nothing to them in the
poignancy of their own concrete loss.
"War Mothers by Edward
Garcsche, s. j.. editor of The Queen s
Work, takes: the other and perhaps
more conventional viewpoint of woman s
willing sacrifice and service of volition
in war for abstract principles bound up
with the cause of human freedom from
autocracy. Father Garesche's poems
recognize the pangs of personal loss.
but are rich in the solace of the spirit
that serves and sacrifices and bears the
| burdens without bitterness. The sense
of spiritual devotion runs convincingly
through these poems.
MY Flag and My Boy by Lieu
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Herbert Rawlinson In
The Carter Case
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Mary Pickford In
The Hoodlum
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Lew Cody In Are
You Legally Married?
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Henry v. Warner In
For a Woman's Honor
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VIM. Farnum
Wolves of the Night
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Geraldine Farrsr-The
World and Its Woman
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dadelaine Traverse In
SnareB of Paris
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Geraldine Farrar-The
World and Its Woman
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Dolores Casinelli in
The Virtuous Model
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David Powell in
The Teeth of the Tiger
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Harry Morey In
In Hcnor's Web
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Mildred Harris Chaplin
In Home
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Marguerite Clark in
Luck in Pawn
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william Farnum in
Wolves OF the Night
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Anita Stewart In Her
Kingdom of Dreams
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Anita Stewart in
Human Desire
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Herbert Rawlirson in
The Carter Case
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Dolores Casinelli In
Virtuous Model
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Nfadge Kennedy in
Through Wrong Door
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King Basgot-T'he Man
Who Stayed at Home
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Ora Carew in
Loot
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Creighton Hale In
The Black Circle
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Florence Reed In
Woman Under Oath
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Ma-Euerite Clark in
Widow by Proxy
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. Marguerite CLARK In
Luck In Pawn
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Mary MacLaren, in
Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-20
HIGH SCORES MADE
AT CALDWELL RANGE
Triple Tie for First Place in
Presidents Match.

The second days shooting in the
Presidents match. 500 yard contest
was marked by good weather conditions
and continued good scores on the range
at Caldwell, n. J. Sergeant NJ. Fisher
Of the marines, who scored 1913 yester-
day. found two rivals for first place in
Sergeant j. Farkas OF the cavalry team
ard Sergeant o. L. Dyer of the infantry
team, both totalling 1913 bullseyes.
Sergeant Farkas scored 90. in each
round and Sergeant Dyer 100 in his first
and ss in his second. The two low
records were 1876. On Thursday, the
final day OF the match, the shooting will
be at 1000 yards. The winner will re-
ceive an autographed letter from the
President, describing him as the best
military rife shot in the United States"
The two man team match was shot at
500 and ! 1000 yard ranges, the high
scoring teams being Sergeants Claude
Thompson and Otto Wigs of the ma
rines and Sergeants A. Welniak and L.
A. Rutherford of the First Infantry.
Both teams made 3s0 perfect shots. The
second stage of the small bore Marine
Corps match was also shot.
Tomorrow the national individual
small bore match, a preliminary tryout
for the international team which will fire
against the scores Of Great Britain, will
be held. The international match will
be fired on Saturday. The British scores
have been received, but are not an
nounced.
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TRIES. TO END LIFE
TO CHEAT CHAIR
Slayer SaUed by Keepers Be-
fore Execution.

TRENTON, n. j.. Aug 19.-Frank lie
gangsters electrocuted in the State
prison here tonight foOth murder Of
seventy-year- Roman Smith, a farmer
a South River attempted to dash out
his brains against the bars OF his cell
shortly before ne was led to the electric
chair Keepers overpowered him and he
was placed In a padded cell where a
surgeon dressed his wounds.
lie Varie refused to walk to the execu-
ton chamber and was dragged from his
cell to the chair by four keepers. against
whom he fought with desperation. As
they passed the iron barred door behind
which Michael De Palma. another OF the
murderers was waiting his turn to be
executed the latter called out: you
ought TO be ashamed of yourselves" The
third man to die was Gareno Palemeri.
Four contacts of 1900 volts and twelve
smperes each were given the three con-
demned men.
Smiths murder occurred October IL
1917. The crime was committed to OBJ
tain the money II was believed the
farmer had secreted in his house, but a
search of the premises disclosed but $50
The gangsters bound and gagged Smiths
wife and shot him down when he went
to her rescue.
A fourth man. who planned the rob-
berry. but who later refused to Join in II,
Is serving from ten to thirty years. A
fifth member o: the gang is still at
liberty.
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PARIS FEARS RETURN
OF FLU" EPIDEMIC
Medical Men Still BaffIed by
Wartime Disease.
0p a stag Correspondent Of TIE sux.
Copyright, 1919 oH rioh,. .<...,.S

Copyright. 1919, all rights reserved.
PARrs, Aug. 1.-THE recrude,cenee Of
last years epidemic of Spanish influenza
In Europe is feared here. French sci
ontine men have discovered symptoms
OF a return Of the dreaded malady and
are preparing. with the aid Of the
French Academy Of Medicine. to Issue
warning to the public.
Although the influenza persisted
throughout the whole Of last winter and
through the spring and summer in n
more or less serious degree nothing like
real epidemic was in evidence EXCEPT
In southern Europe and Switzerland
where the total number of cases was
two million.
Scientific men here still are baffled nv
the disease and causes attributed for its
recrudescence in one country are dis.
puted by the facts in another. Theories
.ending to show that atmospheric con-
uitions are the cause are not accepted
ny one section Of the Academy of MeAi-
clne, 1t having been shown that the germ
OF grip breeds and fiourishes as we'll nm
der very different climatic conditions
and that the ravages OF the disease are
not less severe in one part of Europe
than in another.
A German professor predicts a uni
versal grip scourge in the next few
years.