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type. The following narrative ballad.
The Hangman's Tree" Is one of the
epic ballads quoted in order to show
its definite artistry: ALTERATION. the
question and answer method of telling
the chief earmarks of this artistry:
Hangman, hangman, how'd yo hand,
how'd IL wide and far
For there | see my feyther coonlin,
Riding through the air.
Feyther feyther. ha yo brot me goold?
Ha yo paid my fee?
or ha yo COON to see me hung
Beneath the hangman's tree?
ha nav brot yo goeld.
hs nav paid yo fee.
But | ha COON to see yo hung
Beneath the hangman's tree.
Similar stanzas tell the failure Of
mother and sister to save the doomed
singer. Then comes the contrast, in
the closing lines:
Hangman. hangman, how'd yo hand.
how'd IL wide and far
For theer ] see my sweetheart coomin,
Riding through the air.
Sweetheart sweetheart ha yo brot me
goold?
Ha yo paid my fee?
Or ha yo COON to see me hung
Beneath tho hangman's tree?
ha brot yo goold,
And ] ha paid yo fee.
And ! ha COON to tax yo from
Beneath the hangman's tree.
In a later chapter the author dis
cusses British foksong survivals and
variants I'm the different parts Of our
own country and finally modern folk
song creations. such as were produced
among our cowboy groups. These. she
thinks, in no way suggest the true
ballad. Popular improvisations. she
maintains. lack cohesion of plot and
Characterization. as well as technique
Of structure. She does not think that
this modern inferiority is due ~ In
feriority of present folk groups as
compared with former folk groups,
but to the fact that the true ballad
is, as before stated, true artists in
dvldual work.
Louise .Poud's book, like most schol-
arly investigations, Is somewhat emu
lucrative and weighty with references:
II is nevertheless interesting and val
liable. Above all. II stresses the i'm
portant and welcome point that folk
song is not communal in origin. in the
sense that individual poets were not
then, as always, the real creators Of
vital and lasting poetry.
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Baudelaire

witch Woman; could Baudelaire
have improved?
Naked and white, the matron moon
urges the woman. The undulating sea
fingers the rocks and winds steadily
over them. She opens the goatskin
wide--it falls.
The walls of the world are crashing
down, she is naked before the naked
moon the Mother Moon, who sits in
a courtyard of emerald with six black
slaves before her feet. SiX-and a
white seventh, who dances, turning in
the moonlight, fiinging her arms about
the soft air, despairingly lifting her.
self to her full height, straining tip
toe away from the slope of the hill.
Witch breasts turn and turn, witch
thighs burn, and the feet strike al
ways faster upon the grass Her
blue-black hair in the moon haze
blazes like a fire of salt and myrrh.
Sweet as branches of cedar, her arms ;
fairer than heaped grain, her legs as
grape clusters her knees and ankles ;
her back as whito grapes with smooth
skins.
d. H. Lawrence is interviewer in
"She runs through him with the whip
ping of young fire. The desire OF her
is thongs and weeping" Dried Mar
joram" is great thing, fearful
thing
The weighted end of a constant swing,
IT changed and tangled,
But always dangled.
More than a song book, Legends"
IS a sketch book. Miss Lowells poems
fairly Shrek for Illustration; assuredly
they offer enormities of suggestions for
them. Why, John Wenger could use
an idea likeIhis for a diminutive stage
set: They came to a house painted
black and carved with stars. In the
centre was q round door with a moon
in it, Fortunate will be the artist
who receives the assignment to paint
Chou Kiou, "A breath of peach bloom
turning pathway" the heroine of "A
Legend of Porcelain" when with Miss
Lowell he will collaborate on an illus
trated edition of her works-an abso-
lutely necessary future event. Amy
Lowell is a museum; a text book to
which musician poet. terpsichorean
and artist. should turn and be nour-
ished.
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Reviewed by LOUISE
MALLINCKRODT KUEFFNER.

n IAN is forever fascinated by
Nj origins. In particular is this
true of his desire to know the
beginnings of poetry, that mysterious
quintessence of human experiences
and desires which he has never, as
yet, been able TO fathom At the very
moment when we are Interested. more
than ever before, i'm contemporary
poetry and i'm the widest modern
experiments of individualistic ''bi-
zarrism" and free verse" in the very
same breath, almost, we are interested
likewise in the simple. direct express
sion of elemental emotion as voiced in
the traditional, seemingly unindivid-
ualized, folksongs, and in new theories
concerning their primitive production.
The latest book on this subject.
Poetic Beginnings and the Ballad"
by Louise Pound of the University of
Nebraska, is scholarly; it is especially
interesting In that It stresses the in
dividual, rather than the communal,
origin of folksong. ian particular Of the
Scotch and English narrative ballad.
Folksong, communal song, ballad
these have been words to conjure
with. Child the great Harvard coll
lector OF ballads, and Prof Gummere
have made popular in America that
idealization of the folk and it's mys-
terious creation OF poetry which Will
helm Grimm had been the first 10 pro-
claim in the German romantic days
of the early nineteenth century. This
idea of communal poem producing ap-
pealed to our democratic enthusiasms.
Yet, when some of us tried to imagine
just how certain individual poems tell
ing of personal love and sorrow and
feud could have been produced conf
mJnally, we failed to realize the actual
process we also often wondered how
poems telling adventures and express
ing feelings of lords and ladies could
have originated with peasants.
Louise Pound feels that the folk
dance and communal theory of origin.
though valid for certain types of song,
has been much overstressed; so she
emphasizes the individual and artistic
rather than the communal process of
production. She feels that IL is i'm
portant to recognize that the narrative
ballad admired by Child is different
in type and in origin from The lyric
fclksong. Moreover, she stresses, def
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COLOR AND MUSIC
IN DANCING WORD
OF AMY LOWELL
LEGENDS. BY Amy Lowell Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company.
Reviewed by
C. BLYTHE SHERWOOD.

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Men, thistles,
wooden ships
A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES. BY
Edna ST. Vincent Millay. Salvo |.

A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES By
Edna st. Vincent Millay. Salvo |.
Frank Shay
THIS MORNING. BY Hildegarde F'lan-
ner. Salvo III. Frank Shay.
IRON MEN AND WOODEN SHIPS.
Sailor Chanties Collected by Frank
Shay. Salvo III. Frank Shay
The poetry of Miss Millay reminds
one of Sarah Teasdale by the simpic-
itv and distinctness of It's message, but
Miss Millay is more aggressive, more
dramatic. She strikes higher, louder
notes. Despite the force Of her utter
sslce she is simple to the point of
plainness. With great effort of will
at least so 1t seems-she has strained
her emotions. She has ruthlessly dis
carded everything which retards the
straight and rapid flow of the poem
fiom start to finish. There are no
shells in the grated kernels of her
verse. Her simplicity is something to
marvel over, especially the manner In
which the ideas succeed one another.
They follow one another with short
steps and march in "size place." Her
words are clean, simple words which
do not reek Of the thesaurus or rhym-
ing dictionary
Hidegarde Planners Discovery" is
a lively conception. The girl goes to
the mirror to behold the gentle soul
her aunts had told her she possessed,
! could not find tho
But gazing hard I spied
Something much more near to me,
White armed and amber eyed
] went to bed without my soul
And / had no mind TO care,
For a joyful little sin
Slept pillowed in my hair.
The chanties collected by Mr.. Shay
are all too few. but let us be thankful.
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Ship and we'll
THE BLUE SHIP. THE WELL OF
BEING: Poems. BY Herbert Jones.
John Lane Company

THE BLUE SHIP. THE WELL OF
BEING: Poems. BY Herbert Jones.
John Lane Company
.sT HE Well of Being" by Her
bert Jones. is a series OF
sixty-two sonnets inscribed
to a domestic angel and a lyrical his
tory in quite old fashioned. Owen
Meredithian form, called 20 Mistress
Minel" The sonnets have been praised
by competent admirers as of a Cow
entry Patmore quality: they have In
deed, charming serenity which is also
old fashioned. and all the rarer and
crystal-clearer and better for that.
among the singers of the moment.
The eulogy of love is sustained at a
high pitch. yet as its readers instantly
perceive, no possibility of shrillness
can threaten its beauty.
THE Blue Ship" by the same au-
thor. published few months later
than the sonnets. is a collection OF
poems of very pleasing variety in
form in all of which the spirit of
youth out adventuring with AN un-
known maid, In war time, is strongly
indicated. The quality of Mr.. Joness
verse is very high; his choice of words
is impeccable as his sense Of restraint,
and his sensitiveness to the proper
tions of things is as sure a sign of the
true artist as any other of the many
"intimations OF immortality" which the
kindly reader will perceive in these
two volumes, which deserve more at
tention than they may receive at a
trying moment in the worlds record
of itself.
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Never. when the night was dim,
Startled Guardian Seraphim,
Who. above Him in the beams.
Kept their watch round his white dreams.
Let the .rustling, brown mice creep
Undisturbed about His sleep.
Yet If IL had not been So
Had He been like one know,
Fought with little fumbling hands.
Kicked inside his swaddiing bands.
Puckered wilful crimsoning face
Mary Mother, full of grace,
At that little naughty thing
Still had been a-worshlpping.
smaller booklet. we find this apologize,
dated Dublin. Ireland:
OUTLAsTING.
have known men bereft of all they had.
/ have seen women stript of trinkets
rare;
thousand towns may fall, their streets
Their fame be echoless upon the air.
But have never known a dream to die,
And I have dressed In dreams for
many years
And have seen around me careless lie
Their careless trinketry as bright az
tears.
And only the Improbable can stand
At last the Long Uncertainty will do,
And have found it so in every land.
l counted on heart to find it clay
But live by the dream of 1t to-day.
"a ,Pagoda of Jewels" by Moon
Kwan \(Joseph A. Eliason, Los An
geles) has as frontispiece portrait
of the young Chinese author drawn by
Howard Willard. 1t is dedicated
TO ONE
Who has the soul of lily
And whose fancy can see turtle
AS lovely as a butterfly.
From the authors "Foreword" an
extract is worth while:
Honorable readers, before you peruse
the following pages, I wish to make
clear to you the motive behind these
lines. First of ALL these fragments We're
written not because I wanted to express
myself to the world, but rather to ex-
press the thoughts of the world to my
self. They are. therefore. neither
new nor orieinal-but old as the world
itself. My work is not the picture
that the mirror reflects, but the mirror
that reflects the picture. So 1t is for
you, diligent readers, to look into the
ugly or beautiful. And, lastly, ! wish to
apologize for not having the ability to
polish the mirror as bright as 1t might
be. Moon kwAN.
There are twelve fanciful poems.
some humorous pieces not so well
worth doing, bit of prose, and a one
act play of Chinese life which is writ
ten (for the reader-not the stage)
with force, skill and delicacy.
"Precipitations," by Evelyn Scott
(Nicholas Brown, New York;, is a col
lection Of unrhymed free verse" which
does not chime with any of the tradi-
tons of poetry. 1t would be better If
there were more like this;
RAINY TWILIGHT.
Dim gold faces float in the windows
Dim gold faces and gilded arms.
They are clinging along the silver lad
ders of rain.
The are clinging with ivory lamps held
high:
Starry lamps,
Over which the silver ladders
Thicken into nets of twilight.
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Silver song

COLLECTED POEMS. 19o1-191S. BY
Walter De La Mare. In Two Vol
umes. Henry Holt & Co.
- IL,
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The procession of poets down the centuries

teristic of the period although we
catch only faint reflects of the spen-
did background in the literature. To
be interpreted by the gray modern
mind these writings must be read with
the understanding that in the thought
of both author and contemporary au-
dience there was this elaborate rich
ness of daily life
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T T ERE and there--and, we hope.
in many places-persons with
eyes in their heads and light
in their minds fastened upon little
book of poems published years ago by
the Longmans, in England, whose title
page carried the name Walter Ramal.
Is probably a matter between his
Maker and himself; at least this born
poet need not deny his Maker, for di-
vinity shines through all his work
The best of several volumes are col
lected here; the Poems of 1905 in
clude more than fifty titles. among
them the Characters From Shake
speare" and then another carcanet of
"Sonnets'; besides these beautiful
verses flight of Lyrical Verses" and
Memories of Childhood" are welcome
rtminders of the masquerading little
book of earlier days.
"The Listeners" (1914) holds many
beauties; the clear note of the singer
fills the mind. Among the fifty poems
many will remember most certainly
the lines called "All That's Past" be-
ginning;
Very old are the woods,
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs
When March winds wake.
So old with their beauty are
Oh. no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roams back the rose.
However beguiling the charm of Mr..
De La Mares lyrical poetry, and no
matter how versed he is in the Sec
ondary symptoms" of adult mankind.
IL, his children's verses he seems to
have been intended to write nothing
Else The secord of these two fair
volumes is filled with the essence of
joyous youth. From the Songs of
Childhood" G901)-which was one of
the diffident volumes all through
Peacock Pie" the lit of his tune sets
all feet dancing to the light thoughts
Of childhood.
Is not the very spirit of Sheley's
childhood in Hide and Seek?
Hide and seek. says the Wind,
In the shade Of the woods;
Hide and seek says the Moon,
To the hazel buds
Hide and seek says the Cloud.
Star on to star:
Hide and seek, says the Wave
At the harbor bar;
Hide and seek say
To myself and leap
out of the dream OF Wake
Into the dream of Sleep.
xNhatba, i,, apI noutnu or
Boys and Girls" or places and Peo-
Tle," or under the spell OF Witches
and Fairies" or Earth and Air" the
song is gay and clear and shining with
intrinsic beauty and the love OF beauty.
Has anybody lately matched "Silver"?
Slowly, silently, near the moon.
Walks the night in her silver shoon
This way and that she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees
One by one the easements catch
Tier beams beneath the sivery thatch;
Crouched in his kennel like a log.
With paws Of silver sleeps the dog
From their shadowy cote the white
breasts peep
OF doves In a silver-feathered sleep
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and silver eye
And moveless fish in the water gleam
BY silver reeds In n silver stream.
To the Makers of the Nineteenth
Century Series" brou>ht' out i'm this
country by Henry Holt & Co, and Of
which Lord Charnwood's Abraham
Lincoln" and Basil Williams's Cecil
Rhodes" are part, two volumes will
he added IN the autumn. They are
much needed life of "Moltke" by
Lieut.-Col. j. T.. Whitton The series
Is edited by Basil Williams.
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The fOlksOng eternal
Han COnpa

POETIC BEGINNINGS AND YHE
BALLAD. BY Louise Pound. Mac
milan Comnanv
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IAN is forever fascinated by
Nj origins. In particular Is this
. - trra of bic dacIro ~ lr,1.., a.. -
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
WHOLESALE PRICES
ON UPWARD TREND
Increase of 2.7s in August, With Food
Prices Leading All
Others

Washington, d. C.. Sept. l9.--Whole-
sale prices increased 2.75 per cent in
August over July levels, wholesale food
prices leading in the advance with an
Increase of 1873 per cent, according to
figures made public to-day by the de-
partment of labor,
Farm products. including many food
articles, were 2.5 per cent higher in
August than in July, the statement
said, adding that there were decided
advances in butter. cheese, milk. eggs,
rice, meats, sugar, fruits and potatoes.
Meat animals, including cattle and
hogs, also averaged higher in August
than in July.
In all other commodity groups, ex
cept clothing. the statement said, there
were decreases ranging from one per
cent in the case of building materials
to four per cent for metals. Clothes
and clothing showed no change in the
general price level.
Since August last year farm prod
ucts have declined nearly AZ per cent,
clothes and clothing 40 per cent, and
building materials 39iR per cent. The
average decline in all wholesale com
modify prices since last August was
given as 80 per cent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
BETHEL THIEF
RETURNS LOOT
Two Gold Watches, Signet
Ring and Canadian "Shin
Plaster"
FOUND ON DOORSTEP
OF HOUSE ROBBED
Culprit May Have Feared
Detection of the
Police

Bethel, Sept. la.--Some time Friday
the bedroom door OF George Parks and
Charles Wallace, roomers at Mrs. Ber-
tina Hartwelfs. was forced open, bu-
reau drawer was broken into and two
valuable gold watches, one belonging
to each of the men, a signet ring be-
longing to Mr.. Wallace and a 23-cent
Canadian shin-p plaster belonging to MI.
Parks. were taken. A coat hook was
one of the instruments used to pry the
door open.
On returning from work at the gran
ite sheds that afternoon the burglary
was discovered and the police were no
tilted. Saturday forenoon package
containing all the missing articles was
found on the front doorsteps of the
Hartwell house. Probably it was placed
there during the night.
Mrs. A. r. Andrews was in her home
at the other end of the Hartwell house
nearly all day Friday and heard no
suspicious sounds. II is thought the
eulprit, learning that the police were
working on the case, decided TO avoid
detection by returning the stolen arti-
eies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
JAS. SHERIDAN
FATALLY HURT
A Well-known Graniteville
Man Was Struck By a
Stone
AT E. L. SMITH & co.
QUARRY TODAY
Received Fractured Skull
and Died on Operating
Table

Jamesf Sheridan of Graniteville, one
OF the oldest employees of the Z. l..
Smith & Co. quarries, was fatally in
iured when a silver of granite struck
him on the head this morning shortly
before 10 O'Clock. He was rushed to the
Barre City hospital but died at Has
O'Clock.
Mr. Sheridan, with other workmen,
was splitting stone and stopped over
and, when the stone split, silver in
back of it became loosened, fell and
struck the man on the head The other
workmen lifted the injured man out
of the hole and doctors were called
After administering emergency treat
ment they ordered Sheridan taken to
the hospital. Whitcomb's ambulance
was called and the trip to the city was
made in quick time.
At the hospital the injured man was
Immediately placed on the operating
table and an attempt was made to save
his life. The fracture of the skull which
he sustained, however, was too severe
and he died at | AS o'clock
Mr. Sheridan leaves his wife, two
sons, William and Alton, and two
daughters, Florence and Agnes. He was
born in Canada but came to Barre
when young.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
HoLD-UP MEN SENTENCED.
John Shonion and Robert Hill Were
Each Given Eight Years.

Burlington; Sept, l9.-John Shonion
and Robert Hill were each sentenced
in city court Saturday to eight years
in state prison, having pleaded guilty
to the general charge of holding up
automobile parties and breaking and
entering railroad stations.
Shonion or Shannon, entered a plea
of guilty to participating in the steal
ing of the automobile of Emile Cheva-
lier of Morrisville and also pleaded gull
" to being present when Telegraph ope
rator John Mc3ee of Milton was hit
over the head with a revolver by the
bandits and Knocked out. For the
theft Of the automobile Shonion or
Shannon, was sentenced TO serve not
less than two and one half nor more
than three and one-h half years. For she
Milton affair he was sentenced for not
less than five and one half nor more
than seven years. Hin was in court
some time ago on the automobile steal
ing episode and was sentenced TO not
less than two and one half years Sat.
urdav he received not less than five
and one half years on the Milton affair.
which makes his minimuIA sentence
eight years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
JAMES J. GRoGAN.
Resident of Barre for rs Years Died
Saturday.

James Grogan, for the last % years,
pranitecutter in this city, passed
away at his home, 20 Brook street, at
| o'clock Saturday after an illness dat
ing back year. Although failing grad
ually during that time Mr.. Grogan was
not confined until about two weeks
ago.
The deceased was born in Jacques,
P. O.. April @, 1865. When young lad
his parents moved to st. Albans where,
later. Mr. Grogan had employment
with the Central Vermont railway. Sew
eral wears later he entered the granite
manufacturing business in Montpelier,
conducting plant successfully for
few wears. His last place of employ
ment as a cutter in this city was the
ID. X. Lille Granite Co. on Blackwell
street.
Mr.. Grogan was married to Miss
Katherine Glynn of Westield, Mass, IN
April. 1902. who besides daughter
Miss Gladys c. Grogan, survives him
There are also four sisters and three
brothers surviving, all of Providence
r. l. They are Mrs. Mary Logan. Miss
katherine Grogan. Miss Elizabeth Gro
gan, Miss Amelia Grogan, Joseph, John
and Warren Grogan.
Mr.. Grogan held membership in the
granitecutters' union, as well as st,
Monica's church, in which institution
he took great interest. Funeral serv-
ices were held from the church at S
O'Clock this morning, Rev. p. NJ. Nc
kenna celebrating requiem mass. Bur
ial was in the Catholic cemetery on
Beck~y street The pail bearers We're:
Alex Henes. John Gavaghan, Thomas
McGoff. Michael d. keefe, John j. Har-
tigan and Patrick Hernon.
Those from out of attending the
services were: Mrs. Mary Logan, Miss
katherine Grogan, Warren and John
Grogan Of Providence and Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Il. Riley and their daughter, kath-
rvn. Of Westficld Mass. and their son,
Harold, Of Springfield, Mass
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-09-19
SUDDEN DEATH AT RANDOLPH.
George Temple Died of Diabetes-Fu-
neral Held Sunday.

Randolph, Sept. lg.--People were
very much surprised and shocked to
learn on Friday Of the death of George
Temple, who lived near Randolph Cen
ter. Tuesday he was in town and was
around for a part of the day, attending
TO business, The day following he was
not quite as well and a physician was
called. After a careful diagnosis dla
betes was found To be his trouble. Mr..
Temple sank quietly into sleep, and
from that time he never rallied, pass
ing away on Thursday.
Eiyedtnly he was ignorant OF his
condition, and his family had not real
lied ii at any time through the sum
mer. Up TO Wednesday he had been
busy in the farm work.
Mr.. Temple is survived by his wife.
who was Flora Hewitt Of Pomfret, and
a son. Ray Temple, who was sssoei-
ated with his father in the farm m
terests. and lived at home, and one
daughter, Miss Doris Temple, who Is
at present at home. Mr.. Temple was
a man much respected in town, hay-
ing held offices Of trust in which he
exercised good judgment and proved
himself good business manager.
The funeral was held at his home at
Randolph Center Sunday afternoon,
Rev. G. T. Goodlife of Morrisville, a
former pastor, officiating. and burial
was at Randolph Center in the family
lot.