Evening star., 1925-06-20
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By the BookLorer.

The House or Hundred LiShlS'
appeared in 1900. Since then he has
published three volumes OF plays and
| occa sional poems in magazines, but no
further volumes Of poetry until the
| present time. Now his second volume
| has been given to the public-"Hes-
perides." 1t is slender volume of
short poems, each rich In lyric
| beauty, delicate thought and perfect,
| phrasing. The title poem, Hes
perides," shows a poet standing on
May morning in Washington Square.
| discouraged and bitter, but suddenly
! heartened by a dream of the Garden
| OF the Hesperides, symbolizing life
itself where the fruit Is bitter at nrst
but afterward sweet" He awakens
| from his vision to realize:
But here where he breathed was
| the island, glittering-shored. The
poem Legend" represents a wound
| ed seaman who remembers mysteri'
Gus island on which grows the fruit
called "the minds desire'-the fruit
| which shall bring peace to war
worn world.
Earth shall end her hating through the apples
! And be healed at last.
| Some Of the most charming shorter
| lyrics are Santa Barbara Beach"
Monotone Triumphant, THE Bird and
| the Tree" and Jean Singing The
elegies or ritual poems-"Ritual for
, Birth and Naming" and Ritual for
| the Body's Passing" Both are full
| of religious feeling. The following
| lines from the second illustrate their
quality:
Though now the brief pavilion of our day
Fades a, a We toll to build the unfinished
Though now no Autumn orchard. yielding
| Fulfils The flowers of NAV
| Yet on the pinions Of Immortal yearnins.
sss IL s :is9 *. q .1.. Ss u. S.s fore
How rids :"'Rs' n. dusk enrinr. the sseadf.ss
We shall renew and gather and reauie. -,
And be found no more by night.
! RidGely Terrence Is not one Of the
ltra-moderns among poets and for
| this reaso will perhaps appeal 10
| many o. us the more.
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| In Franklin Winslow Kane Anne
| Douglas SedSwick has created man
an American. as selfless as most Of
her women in this book and others,
are selfish. In fact Franklin is too
selfless: he is a continual temptation
| TO every one else to be as selfish as
possible temptation to which they
all yield all of the time. Althea Jakes,
! his compatriot, accepts his unreci.
| procated devotion of years as her
| right and decidedly resents his con-
| sidering the possibility of marriage
| with another woman. even though she
| herself thinks him too meager. com.
| monplace and comic to marry. except
as a last resort. She whistles him off
and on as she needs him and he al
| ways comes: finally to save her pride
| she dema nds of him the sacrifice of
the only romance which has ever
come into his life and he makes it
| cheerfully. Helen. the other woman.
! uses him. with equal unscrupulous-
ness. taking him on for time as a
means of support for her unprovided
of him, never really changing her first
! opinion of him as "a funny little
| man" Gerald Digby. the other man.
also finds Franklin funny and insight
ficant, but II Is TO Fra nklin that he
turns in the only trouble which has
come into his shallow life. and. OF
course Franklin helps him. though in
I doing SO he is obliged. as usual, to
! suppress all his own feelings. Anne
! Sedgwick's art is shown by the fact
| that the reader does not once find
| Franklin ridiculous. His personality
! and chara cter, SO underestimated by
all the selfish friends to whom he de-
votes himself. are revealed as so
unique that to the reader he has all
| the charm. all the lovableness which
: the two women find in Gerald. but be-
| cause of their blindness. fail to find in
! Franklin.
| so You're Going to Italy" by Clara
f. Laughlin is something between a
| guide book and delightful descriptive
/ essay The subtitle reads: And If
4.
| things I'd invite YOU to do The four
sections are devoted to Naples. Rome,
Florence and Venice and their en-
| virons. The morning for regular sight
seeing, short rest always after
| luncheon and the afternoon for strolls
and drives-this seems to be the au-
| thor's general rule. Bits Of political
and art history. not long enough to Re
tiresome. amusing incidents. anecdotes
about people and places. literary al
lusions and brief descriptions all add
to the interest of the book. Certain
Of the chapters. especially, make one
who has been in Italy long to return,
and one who has never been determine
to go at once; for example, "On Vir.
Rome. Some Drives in and About
Rome" Your First Stroll in Flor.
| ence, Across the Arno," After Ven
ice." The Illustrations are from IA
nous drawings and paintings, as
| The Sabines," from the painting by
David in the Louvre; "Boccaccio Dis
cussing." from a miniature in an old
| Poems" from painting by Domenico
Morelli in the Gallery Of Modern Art
in Rome: The Borgia Family" from
a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
''Vittoria Colonna," from the portrait
| by Michelangelo, and THE Burning Of
/ Savonarola." from a painting by an
unknown artist in the Museum Of San
Marco in Florence.
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| W. L. George, who has often assured
| his public in his own country and ours
that he is an expert on feminine
psychology. has recently published q
book on the evolution Of woman. called
! 1.-The Story of Woman" In spite Of
Mr.. Bryan's opinion. he traces woman
back to the ancestor ape. In the neo-
lithic period. he says. began the in
teilectual revolt Of woman which.
contrary to general belief. is no new
thing. The Hebrews made woman an
important part Of the life Of the ma.
ton. The Greeks kept respectable
women subordinate and uneducated:
only the courtesans were companions
of men. Christianity established mo.
| nogamy and strengthened the position
Of woman in every way. The women
Of the dark ages, OF the renaissance
of the seventeenth, eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries are all discussed
and placed as regards their evolution.
In the nineteenth and twentieth cen.
turieS woman has won in her struggle
for equal recognition with man In eco-
nomic and political life. Three men,
Mr.. George says, have done more than
any Others to help woman in this
| Icfrno0lo-Tohn Ctuort A;lJ Iarr;y-