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nowhere ushers in several sketches which
might be almost as good as the two men
toned, but for the fact that they trail
away into splotches. The grim, grotesoua
power OF the Madman's Funeral gets losr
in a tumble of fiaccid incoherence AMI
here and there the Death of God rises to
majestic point and eloquence to walloy
again in confused rhetoric.
But even had the authors kent The kew
they so successfully strike at times one
could scarcely forgive the coarse and
unnecessary realism exercised with no
quarter, either aesthetic or conventional.
in the Death of Soldier; or the senseless
cruelty of the Resurrection. which n.--
rates the exhuming of the uncoffined bouy
of soldier intrenched where he fell Tho
former is mere meaningless photography.
the latter has all the relish of n high
power camera playing hockey in a morgue.
And neither seems to fit into the scheme
OF the book except for its gangrenous de-
tail. Though there are vigor. caustic in
cisiveness, imagination and certain
quality of distinction in the Undertaker's
Garland. the authors seem to have relaxed
their grip i'm the heady fumes of their own
undertaking. There is nothing which quite
lives up to the grim masterpiece on the
fly leaf, which attributes Where do we
90 from here?" to the Unknown Soldier
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missing-that of Longfellow. He wrote
one curiously half-hearted poem on the
sinking Of the Cumberland, and that was
all. Twenty years previously he had writ
ten some poems on slavery, but during the
| whole period of the war he seems to have
held himself aloof. untouched by the fever
of the times, and to have labored calmly
away at his Tales of Wayside Inn" and
his translation of Dante.
1t was not from professional writer's only
that poems came. Unknown men and
women. North and South. but especially in
the South, fashioned from the agony of
their hearts scraps of glowing song, while
such minor rhymsters as Charles Dawson
Shanly, Ethel Lynn Beers, Will Henry
Thompson, Francis Miles Finch (and shall
we add Tom Taylor?) are remembered to-
day only because of a single poem evoked
by the war.
The civil war was a great conflict
waged for four long years back and forth
across the very heart of the nation. and
it was natural, perhaps, that that heart
should have been wrung to lofty utterance
of hope and despair But in the old days
it did not require far-flung battles and
flaming ideals to set American poets
rhyming-any little fight would do. No
doubt they were more ready to exclaim
My country, right or wrong!" than is the
case to-day; and in spite of the disrepute
into which the phrase has fallen among
the intelligentsia there is still something
fine about it! Certainly they were far
more simple-and in these raucous times
one is more and more inclined to doubt
whether there can exist great poetry with
out great simplicity.
At any rate, the second war with Eng
land produced '"The Star-Spangled Banner
and some notable poems by Philip Free
Reau: to the credit of the brief and not
exactly noble war with Mexico stands
O'Hara's "Bivouac of the Dead" and Hoff-
mans Monterey" to say nothing of the
Biglow Papers; while the finest poetic
Towering of the war with Spain was in
those two great questioning poems by Will
lam Vaughan Moody, "On a Soldier Fallen
in the Philippines" and "An Ode in Time
of Hesitation" But Guy Wetmore Carryl
had been moved to unaccustomed heights
by the sight of the battle fleet steaming
the Maine had inspired roIlicking glorifi-
cation of the Irish race which deserves to
be remembered-and which is. perhaps, the
one thing which will keep its authors
name alive
But other poets had been moved to song
-Stedman. James Jeffrey Roche, VIII
Carleton, Joaquin Miller Clinton Scollard
Richard Hovey Lloyd Mifflin, Edith NJ
Thomas, William Henry Venable. Robert
Burns Wilson. Robert Underwood Johnson
Wallace Rice. Edmund Vance Cooke.
Charles G. D. Roberts, Madison Cawein.
Thomas Nelson Page, Robert Loveman.
George Edward Woodberry. William Ham
ilton Hayne. John Jerome Rooney. John
White Chadwick. Joe Russell Taylor-the
old familiar names OF the golden nineties,
Not great song. perhaps, but at least
song!
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Death in Prose and Verse

THE UNDERTAKER'S GARLAND. BY
John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson.
Jr. Alfred Knopf
"Hfs might so easily have been not
only a good book but a good book
Of very rare kind AS it is it is
only a distinctive and interesting idea
which does not quite come off. 1t is too
bad. For the authors show themselves
capable Of high success in dancing on this
tightrope where misstep is SO fatal and
SO offensive. Just a little more construc-
tive thought and some restraint (of which
there Is none) and all this cleverness of
mordant detail, sometimes astonishingly
well phrased. would have done the trick.
1t is the sort of trick that must be done
perfectly IL done at all. The people who
have succeeded have either struck it off
in the white heat of genius or forged 4,
carefully with unerring taste. The Funeral
of st. Mary Magdalene and the Death of
an Efficiency Expert show what the book
might have been.
These are so good only because the idea
is plotted out and completed. The preface
with its hard. bright writing which leads
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| ton against slavery, given added poignancy
| by fear of the political supremacy Of the
South. There was politics as well as ethics
in the anti-slavery propaganda, but this
was exactly what was needed to give it
real fervor. The surest way to get people
thoroughly aroused is to threaten at the
same time their ideals and their pocket
books-vide Ulster. And there can be no
doubt that America was thoroughly, even
rabidly. aroused.
The most famous single specimen OF the
anti-slavery propaganda is, of course
Uncle Toms Cabin" but the poets of New
England made no inconsiderable contribu-
ton. The fighting in Kansas. the debates
in Congress and finally John Browns raid
all helped to maintain public interest at
fever heat. A considerable anthology could
be made Of poems about John Brown, but
Edmund Clarence Stedmans is easily the
best of them-as well as one of the best
that Stedman ever wrote BY this time
Southern rhyfnesters We're in the ring,
making up by vituperation what they
lacked in technique. and, as secession
loomed nearer and nearer, and the storm
finally broke. the floOd of patriotic verse
both Northern and Southern. mounted
higher and higher.
1t is astonishing how much of this verse
is of exceptional merit. None of it, per-
haps. has quite the same authenticity of
inspiration as the -1'Battle Hymn of the
Republic" but a surprisingly large propor-
ton possesses a valid claim to be called
poetry. For one thing. there were almost
as many poets alive then as there are now
and for some reason they were far more
responsive to patriotic stimulus. Perhaps
they were less skeptical. less complex
There is certain tang about some of
their poetry which would seem to Indicate
that they occasionally read the Bible.
and perhaps even believed it, At any
rate their poems show that they were
deeply and genuinely moved and every
picturesque incident and personality
Stonewall Jackson, Lee. Fighting Joe
Hooker, Farragut, Barbara Frietchie. Sher-
idan's ride, Sherman's march to the sea.
Monitor and Merrimac, I4ncoIn's assassina-
tion-had adequate celebration. Between
the day of Whittier's impa ssioned attacks
upon slavery and the day when Lowell rose
at Cambridge to read his great "Commem-
Grafton Ode scores of stirring poems had
come from American pens Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. George Henry Boxer, Henry How
ard Brownell, Bryant, Emerson, Thomas
Dunn English. Edward Everett Hale.
Charles Graham Halpine, Bret Harte Paul
Hamilton Hayne Holmes, HoweIls. Sidney
Lanier, Lucy Larcom, Charles Godfrey Le-
land, Herman Melville S. Weir Mitchell
Kate Putnam Osgood John Williamson
Palmer. Margaret Junkin Preston, Edna
Dean Proctor, Thomas Buchanan Read
Edward Rowland Sill. Edmund Clarence
Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Bayard
Taylor. Francis Orray Ticknor. Henry Tim
rod, Walt Whitman-it sounds like roll
call OF American lettersi-all wrote poem
after poem inspired by the conflict.
In the whole galaxy only one name is
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What Our Wars Have
Done for Verse
Continued from Page Fire.

sunSs Dut Lnal may nave been because
Key supposed the air to be So well known
and the song so self-evidently written to
fit 1t that there was no reason to name it.
The handbin which appeared on September
Is. the day after the poem was written.
bore the title, Defense OF Fort McHenry."
and. after a short account of the circum-
stances Of the poems composition, the line.
tune: Anacreon in Heaven" All of this
was presumably added by Keys brother
fn-law. Judge ]. n Nicholson, to whom he
showed the poem on the morning of Sep
tember Is. and who was so impressed with
at that be Immediately sent 1T to the
printer.
Both Baltimore newspapers. the Patriot
and the American. had been suspended
during the siege. They resumed publica-
ton September 20, and on that day the
Patriot at the head of its editorial page.
under the caption, Defense Of Fort Nc
Henry" carried the story Of the poem and
then the poem itself, preceded by the line,
Tune: Anacreon IN Heaven" The ABserf-
can published practically the same article
next day.
"Anacreon In Heaven" thus suddenly
singled out for Immortality. was drink
ing song. composed during the latter half
Of the eighteenth century by John Stafford
Smith to fit some verses written by one
Ralph Tomlinson, the president of a club
called the Anacreonatics. which used to
hold convivial musical evenings at the
Crown and Anchor in the Strand. Just
when it was imported by America nobody
knows, but It soon became sort of model
TO which patriotic poets set their verses,
an especially famous example being Thomas
Paine's Adams and Liberty written in
1898. and one of the most popular political
songs ever written IN America Key was
OF course familiar with 1t and it was en-
tireIy natural-inevitable, indeed-that he
should think OF this air when composing
a patriotic poem Of MS own.
For the sake of historical accuracy. it
should be added that the author of Adams
and Liberty Is often given. and quite cor
rectly. as Robert Treat Paine. The author
was christened Thomas by his father. the
Robert Treat Paine who was one of the
signers OF the Declaration of Independence;
but in 1901. In his anxiety to avoid being
identified or confused with the great ag-
nostic Of that day. he petitioned the Massa-
ehusetts Legislature to give him Christian
name. and thereafter took the name OF his
father, Robert Treat Paine However. on
the old copies of the song the caption is
adams and Liberty. the Boston Patriotic
Song written by Thomas Paine. A. NJ
Who christened Keys poem THE Star
Spangled Banner" nobody knows. but the
title was given it within month after it
was written. for it so appears in an ad-
vertIsement OF the song dated October 10.
1914
w.
The tune OF John Browns Body" to
which the Battle Hymn" was written, is
based upon an old negro spiritual. brought
north by q missionary who heard it at
Southern camp meeting. Various revival
hymns were written to it. but Edna Dean
Proctor was the first to connect it with
John Brown Here are two stanzas of the
original John Brown song, as she wrote it:
John Brown died on the scaffold for the
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sisted only Of four lines. each repeated
three times and. with refrain. forming
a stanza:
John Browns body lies a-mouldering in
the gravel
John Browns body lies a-mouldering in
the grave,
John Browns body lies a-mouldering in
the gravel
His soul is marching on!
Glory. glory hallelujah!
Glory. glory hallelujah!
Glory. glory halleiujahl
His soul is marching on!
The other three lines were:
The stars OF heaven are looking kindly
down!
He's gone to be soldier in the army of
the Lordl
John Browns knapsack is strapped upon
his back!
Perhaps there were others from time to
time added by some adventurous army
poet; but in this form the song represented
no difficulties even to the most illiterate
and proved so eminently satisfactory that
John Browns Body" soon became the
most popular marching song in history.
Any successful marching song must be
simple and repetitious. but few have pos
sessed these qualities in so supreme a de-
gree,
lnN spite of legends to the contrary
neither The Star-Spangled Banner" nor
the Battle Hymn of the Republic had
any instant and Widespread popularity.
The vogue of the former seems to have
died out very soon after the close of the
second war with England, and soon be-
came so little known that. as Mr.. Sonneck
in his valuable monograph points out. 1t
was included in only fifteen out of eighty
nine school song books published between
1884 and 1850. 1t was not until the civil
war, and especially until the war with
Spain. that it really caught the popular
fancy. As for the Battle Hymn" II Law
enshrined. not to say petrified, in the
pages Of the Atlantic Monthly until Chap
lain McCabe came out of Libby prison. 1t
was his wonderful singing of it during his
lecture on his life in prison which electri-
fled the American people and made them
aware Of 1t as a classic
Perhaps to complete the record IT should
be pointed out that our third national an
them. America" was written by the Rev.
Samuel Francis Smith "a clergyman be il
noted. not a poetD to an air which he
fondly imagined to be an old German folk
song. as perhaps it was; only. unfortu-
nately. the English had already discovered
it and given it its widest circulation in
God Save the King" written (perhaps by
Harry Carey) in the first half Of the eigh-
teenth century.
As matter of fact America has no
officially designated national anthem. Both
the Army and the Navy use "rhe Star
Spangled Banner" but a good many well
meaning patriots still persist in standing
up when the band plays america some
what to the amusement Of any of our Eng
lish cousins who may be present and who
also stand up. No doubt II was to solve
this difficulty that Mr.. jefferson NJ Levy
introduced In the House OF Representa-
tives on January 80 1913. resolution de-
claring The Star-Spangled Banner" to be
the official anthem of the United States
of America but. like so many other well
meaning resolutions. it died I'm committee.
Perhaps the committeeman hoped that
some day a real national anthem would
spring from the heart OF some American
poet As perbans II NAV fbo,,~,t, 49,, ,.eaI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
I;ig Green Champs

According to Manager Virgil John
son. of Millville. Riverside is certainly
entitled to the championship Of South
Jersey. Here is what he says:
"NIillville won the title in 1921, when
Mclrose. Riverside. Pitman. Penns-
grove. Monmouth and Oriental, OF
Gloucester. we're decisively defeated. In
,hot same ypnr these teams defeated all
o,hor logical contenders for the title
Last Saturday Rivcrside's victory
relieved Millville Of the honor and I
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
M|LLV|LLE ELEVEN
T0PLAY NEWARK
Manager Johnson Cannot See
How Melrose Can Claim
South Jersey Honors
BELONG TO RIVERSIDE

Millville, undismnyed by the first set
back in two years, which occurred las,
Saturday, when the Riverside eleven
won tough game by single touch
down, Is all set for it's biggest task OF
the season tomorrow against Newark,
n team which claims the State cham
pionship.
Newark and Orange have been wran :
,ling about the title for the Inst month
without getting together. Newark has
finally offered to play Orange or the
gate receipts and the challenge has not
yet been accepted.
Last Saturday Newark defeated the
speedy Nutlcy grid combination, 12 TO
U. Newark has won six games to date,
Hclcville. n. j.. having been their
easiest victim. ~ to o.
Coach Archer, with the knowledge
that Mllville is going up. against the
strongest combination Of the year, has
been giving his men long workouts daily.
None of the Mllvile players were in
iurrd in the Riverside combat. Coal.
dale has been invited to play IN Mill.
Vile early IN December.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
BARRETT-MORAN WINNER
MAY CLASH WITH WHITE
Red'Head Anxious for Long Bout
Win Chicago Vet

Th" hunt for an opponent for CHARLEY
White in Il fifteen round no.hnrlSiou
hout IN New York may lead to this city
on Thanksgiving Day. New Workers.
are anxious to see the challenger Of
Leonard in action. but as yet they have
not found suitable opponent. Tn
meeting between Bobby Barrett. Of
Clifton Heights. and Pal Moran. OF
''rw Orleans, IN the final Of five eight
round bouts nt the Arena next Thurs
day afternoon May so Il long way
toward determining the logical rival for
White.
Barrett surprised White in their las;
meeting over tho eight round route in
this city. Th" Clifton Heights lad is
anxious for meeting with the Chicago
veteran over III" fifteen. round route.
johnny Dundee. who has been tnkin;
= easy for several months. will resume
his activc campaigning in the fourth
contest meeting .\'oX Hart. Of Ohio.
I"' Tiplt2 i working hard for his
r,t with Sh0mUs O'Brien, Of Eonkcrs
Billy Mascot. Of New York. should
oroy" real rest for Benny Bass,
lr.'',-r amateur champion Of this city,
wlo has come forward with a rush.
Martin Judge. Cf this city, viii be
ra''rl upon "a face Johnny Brown, Of
England. in tic second bout.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Benny Boynton Former Grid Star Plays Here Tomorrow

should say that the big Green team h.
very excellent claim to. the cham :.
pionship because Millville had already
won from Woodbury., which team with.
ont its star. Nick Carter. held y,
Collingswood to a tie, and because Mil
vile also won from Gloucester be.
cause Riverside and Woodbury. elm.
mated Riverton, Westville. Paulsboro
and w9odstown' .,, from the race BY de-
"Of course, there u no contention
that one eleven can play all the teams
IN South Jersey. and the chamnionshr
must be decided upon an elimination
basis. Regarding the claims OF Me rose.
will say Melrose has not defeated
New Jersey team this season.
Were Offered Dates
"Nfillville offered to give the resort
eleven a game on THANKSGIVING Day. !
offered them the privilege Of taking half
the gate, but they demanded fiat
guarantee, and Millville did not feel
like lowing the Atlantic City eleven
TO dictate terms.
1--WE In Ntillville have no doubt bu't
victory over the Melrosc eleven. With
Anderson and Obergfell playing I think
Riverside could win from them, too.
"It's hard for me to see how Mel
rose, playing Philadelphia teams oil
season, can lay any claim to q South
Jersey title. Let them try out Wood
bury or Irvington or the Newark team
that plays Millville tomorrow.
"Considcrablc publicity is being given
to the fact that Melrose plays Wildwood
A. A.. Of Frankford, Sunday and that
Wildwood defeated Riverside. Z to @.
Not much can be obtained from this.
Millville beat Wildwood 13 to O and
they never made a first down on the
locals
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Cannon Wins Over lynch

Ncw YORK. Nov. 24,-Johnny Cannon o,
youth Brooklyn. armed the decision Over
Tommy Lynch Of Williamsburg. in ,Hs la,
furc en:round encounter that topped tho
Sard et the Rink Sporting Club 81 BROOK
Hn. In the sssni-fnAl AFFAIR o. ten rounds
Happy Mahoney. Of Morrtstown was
awarded the decision over Charley Pappas
0f Greece.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Amherst Five Practices

Amherst. Nov. 24-First practice Of tho
season for Amherst's basketball squad was
poaring. The team viii have for its coach
'Tuss" McI.aughry. the new football coach.
who turned out one Of the strongest uuin-
tets IN Western Pennsylvania while with
Westminster College last year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Former eallpiayer pylno

South Bend. Ind. Nov. N.-Edward An
derson. former Pittsburgh National Ifaguo
out fielder. and at one time manager Of Tho
Terre Hautc and Wheeling teams. OF the OF,
Central League. is In a serious condition ir
a local hospital from stomac ch trouble. Little
hone is felt for his recovery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Submarine Team Plays Tie

Now London. Conn. Nov 2i--Thc All.
Hlr''oris and United States Submarine foot.
bah teams played II 6-to-0 tie game at the
base here yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
SANDY McOermott Dead

Mansfsld. o.. Nov. "a --charEs "Sant~"
AcDermott. former NationAl T,eagu" base
Sall umpire, d.ed here after ar W-ess or
0eysra! months. He was about sixty wears
CID. He uinpired IN the National League
during 1850 TO 1888
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-24
Clarke Gets Decision Over Reid

Worcester. Mass. Nov. 2A.-.Iacislc Clarke
of Allentown. Pa. was awarded the decision
over Fal Reid, OF Boston. at the end Of
q Ell, ten-round bout here. The men are
Md !lcw,ights
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-18
WILSON FUND DRIVE
THIRD WAY OVER
Receipts in District Total
S12,210 for First Two
Days.

More than one-third of the Dis
trict of Columbia's quota of $4,000
for the Woodrow Wilson ForSdation
of 100000 was subscribed in the
first two days of the weeks cam
paign, 1t was annunced at the local
headquarters, 729 Fourteenth street
last night.
Receipts to date, including cash
and pledges, are s12,210.6O. This is
gain of S5,52S.60 over yesterday,
when, the subscription books were
opened. Many of the pledges made
at the mass meeting on Sunday were
redeemed during the day, and con-
fidence was expressed that all would
be redeemed before the end of the
week.
Most of those who subscribed
called personally at headquarters OF
left their donations with members
of the women's committee who pre-
sided at stands in the hotels. banks,
Office buildings, department stores
and theaters.
I'VE are going over the top pre-
dicted Robert W. Woolley, chairman
of the District committee. The re-
Spouse is gratifying. and We have
every reason to believe all sup
porters of Woodrow wilson's ideals
will Join the movement to honor
him before the campaign ends. We
are particularly pleased at the num-
Ter of contributors"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-18
COST OF BUILDING
HAMPERS COLLEGE
President Paunce, of Brown,
Says Number of Students
Must Be Limited.

Prohibitive building costs. the
scarcity of competent teachers and
equipment ana the "swamping" of
American colleges and universities
with students are conditions re-
sponsible for the degradation Of
education" according to DIR. w. IL.
y. Faunce, president of Brown Uni
versity, at 4 dinner given in his
honor last night by the members
of the Maryland and District Brown
clubs at tho University Club.
order to do an important job
that Of educating Americas youth
in a good way" DR.. Fauuce de-
clarad. Brown University is COM
>, He'd To ? dnpt the system of seine
ether similar institutions and limit
the number of students eI.rollcd
each year.
pr. Fauncc cited two instances Of
Irohihitivc building costs lie de-
clared that Brown University would
have erected the largest chemical
labnratory in the East ard the mos.
extensive hall Of languages nad not
the high cost prohibited the letting
of contracts: but, the educator ex-
planned. As a decrease in building
costs is expected in the spring, it is
likely the propoSod additions to the
University viii be erected.
Earlier in the day DIR. Faunce
was the guest of honor at local
mems and womens clubs through
out the city. The graduates of tho
Woman's College. Connected with
Brown University, also entertained
HIM