Arizona republican., 1919-01-05
LITER ATURlE AND ART
 -. Conducted by LEW HEAD

|IIO ICtCtt Cp ILL v I1L< IL not the flower of a seed that germi- mated in a living soul The real tragedy of real poetry was enacted long before you and I ever read it on the printed page. Fortunate is he who can under stand as he scans.
 These that l have listed are not all new. hut they are all well worth the attention of those who really read poetry:
 "A Heap O Livin',7 by Edgar A. Guest.
 Songs of the ShrapneI She'll" by Capt. C. M. Horne.
 "Outcasts in BeuIah Land," by Roy Helton.
 "Works of Henry Drummond."
 Motley and Other Poems,' Walter de la Mare.
 "Posthumous Poems of Swinburne.'
 Shelley and His Poetry
 Songs and Satires," by Edgar Lee Masters.
 "The Red FlOwer,' by Henry Van Dyke.
 NEW BOOKS ON THE SHELVES. Many fascinating new volumes have been received in Phoenix since the holidays. The more prominent arc noted:
 Our Navy at War;" by Reginald Wright Kaufman.
 Fighting Germanys Spies,' by French Strother.
 My Boy In Khaki by Della Thompson Lutes.
 My Lorraine Journal" by Mrs. Nell son O'Shaughnessy.
 "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau.
 "A Girl Named Mary" by Juliet Will bor Tompklns.
 Three Live Ghosts" by Frederic s. lsham.
 sylvia scarIett," by Compton Mac kenzie.
 "PoIlu,' by Eleanor Atkinson.
 The Seven Purposes" by Margaret Cameron.
 TED ROBINSON, newspaper poet, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer s column. entitled "A Philosopher of Folly" has arrived at the front where antholosies will long remember him, i6 the publication of Mere Melodies. It has long been said and often proved true. that the poet who arrives" does so through the newspaper columns Robinson is an example. l am glad to publish this estimate of him, taken from the paper with which he is con nected:
 Newspaper poetry at one time may have been regarded with critical dis trust. but in recent years the best that the versemakers produce finds it's way to the public through the columns ol the daily press. Mere Melodies is a collection of the verse of q newspaper man, Edwin Meade Robnson-m better known as Ted Robinson. poet humorist philosopher, long a membel of the Plain Dealer staff-and each ol the poems included in the volume has been part of the authors daily jour nalistic task They are not neW-som( will be found familiar-but all have at enduring charm and value. They are more than mere melodies. they ar, vehicles of graceful and Worthl thought
 MEETING OF AMBITIONS, or rath CT those with ambitions to become liIOlt kiid II AlltN dit III tue lto4iiiS lilfii they prefer. has been called by Mr X H. Gibson. -ho is fostering the organ iZation in this city. Mr. Gibson informs me that he has not named meeting place because he must first know thr number that will be present. Tn time of meeting. however, has been se for next Friday evening. Those Wh, are inclined toward accomplishment II literacy, musical art or other wortl while lines. will be advised Of tE' meeting place. if they will drop thei names and addresses in his post offic' box No. 1920
 THE ARROW OF COLD" a new novel by Joseph Conrad makes a bi: | splash in the literary sea Doubleday | Page and company are to make such ; | splash about the middle of January | The title is The Arrow of Cold" IA ! to time" says the book itself, "it i easily fixed by events. About the mid | dle years of the seventies. when Dol ! Carlos de Bourbon encouraged by tn l general reaction of all Europe agains tthe eXCesses of communistic repub lcanism, made his attempt for tn throne of Spain Those who have req this novel in manuscript enthusias tically proclaim it Conrad's best-call ing it a romance of classical propor tions
 A DOT AND A CIRcLE-A srca many people who know the lovely fair pictures of Dugald Stewart Wake and who have listened to the stOrie told by t1lis 'fairy-tale man" himsel will recognize the sign which is on tn cover of his book Dream Boats jus published by Doubleday, Page an company. It is dot in a circle an
 has legend connected with 1t just a
 quaint and lovely as have some of tn
 little people inside the covers of t;l
 whimsical book itself Mr. Walker es
 plains that he uses it as the sign of (
 his pictures, since the dot meant q kiS
 and the circle was to prevent it gettin
 away, when his mother used the dcVit
 at the bottom of her letters to hil
 when he was away at school. ThcI
 is something transcendingly bcautifl
 and hOyishly loVable in this idej
 Would that every mother could kno
 that her kisses remained always wit
 those she loves best, just as Dugal
 Stewart Walker keeps the pressure (
 the lips dear to him his cherishe
 trasure; the center of the never enc ing circle that rims that most wonder ful and unselfish thing love. "OUT OF THE SHADOW by Ro.
 Cohen is the autobiography of Ru, ! sian Jewess whose father was force
 to leave his country and come
 America, his family 10 follow as l could provide the means. Rose chosen to be the next of the family
 break away, and she gives us a Viv
 description of her flight across Russ and the German frontier. until s> finally reaches Hamburg, where sl sets said for America. Her slisl strength was gradually broken by hf