Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-03
By the BOOkLOper.

of the seventeenth century, said, Let
me make the songs of a people, ana
you shall make it's laws Marx Sulii'
van. perhaps having this in MIND, de-
votes a number of pages OF his Dook'
"Our Times" to the songs popular IN
the United states In the nineties. Regi-
nald de Koven's robin Hood with
its popular song Brown October
Ale" captured public approval and
| has held Ii for over a quarter OF a.
| century. daisy Bell was one OF
the most popular songs of the period
and the lines
| I'm half crazy. all for the love Of you
were heard everywhere. 'There'll Be
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
was the most popular air for the
bands during the Spanish
| War. ION the Banks of the Wa
bash" and Just Tell Them That You
Saw Me" were composed by Paul
Dresser. brother OF Theodore
Dresser. 1.-THE Sidewalks of New
York was revived at the Democratic
convention Of 1924. Other popular
| New York songs were Little Annie
Rooney" and THE Bowery." Small
town life produced II Don't Want to
Play in Your Yard" and Down Went
McGinty." OF love songs. Sweet
Marie" was general fayorite.
| when You and l Were Young, Mag
gle" was sung at the White House by
"Reminiscences of their youth. after
the Ball" brought its composer,
! Charles X. Harris. profits of over
/ 100000. A song Of the eighties, still
popular in the nineties, was II Had
Fifteen Dollars in My Inside Pocket. I"
Other songs which had great vogue
were TIA ra ra-ra Boom decay" Put
Me Off at Buffalo," THE Rosary"
| My Sweetheart's the Man in the
Moon" Sunshine of Paradise Alley"
Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage" 1.-TWO
| Little Girls in Blue" and 'Rastus on
Parade
| One Of the most delightful pieces Of
| foreign fiction offered in translation
within the past two or three years
was Isabelle Sandy's "Andorra," a
| tale of that obscure little country ly-
ing in the Pyrenees between France
| and Spain, but belonging to neither.
1t was a tale Of smuggling, of heredi'
tary ownership of land, Of family teal-
| ousy, Of murder Now another of Isa-
belle Sandy's novels has been trans
| lated. wild Heart" also a story of
| the Pyrenees. The scene is the ham
| let of Llivia, on the Spanish border.
along a strip Of neutral territory be-
| tween Spain and France. BY the
treaty of the Pyrenees in 1853 Spain
was obliged to cede to France 80 viii
lagos of Cerdagne, of which Llivia
was one. But the principal men OF
| Llivia were able to prove that it was
| not a village but city, dating from
tot r.
arms Of its own. So it has remained
a Spanish City-village, entirely sur
| rounded by French territory and
| joined by neutral road to the high
way of Bourg- Madame. which forms
the frontier. Against this background
| is worked out very simple but NOV
ing story of religious mysticism, fam
| lily devotion, po' erty, suffering and
love. OF the Nicentes family, the girl.
Venturetta, Is the only responsible
member. Her mother. Metchita,
though aging, is still at heart the
loose coquette of younger days. Her
brother, Miguel. is pleasureloving,
careless, selfish. Her grabbed old
uncle, owner of the inn where they all
work. is the tyrant and slave driver Of
the family until the night when his
| life comes to a violent end. Then be
gin the sacrifice and martyrdom OF
Venturetta. Her love for her mother
and brother. unworthy though they
are, causes her to assume an unjust
burden. but she finds help in her mys-
tical worship of the Virgin and her
Divine Son. She attracts earthly
friends, too-the hunchbacked hermit
| Isaby; the insane woman. Pillar, and.
| finally. the hunter and fisherman.
Peyoun, who loves her. At the end
| the tragedy which seems almost in
| evitable is escaped and Eenturetta
| leaves the inn where she has known
| only trouble to go to the lodge OF
| Peyoun in the forest to a life OF
serene contentment.
A. A Milne, who has captured the
| child world and many of its adult
parents and uncles and aunts by his
verses in the volume When We Were
| Very Young" has long written for
| Punch over the signature "A. A. NJ. >
] He has collected some of his delightful
| ly humorous essayettes which have APP
peared in Punch in the volume The
| Sunny Side" Send 1t to an invalid
| friend. take 1t away on your Summer
| vacation read it aloud in the family
| circle-if you have family circle
and If you do read aloud. In his
introduction Mr.. Milne apologies for
| publishing this book at all. on the
ground that his literary obituary was
| suggested, If not written in full. some
essays. called Happy Days" was
published. and a New York critic
ended a review Of 1t with the words
| mfr Milne Is at present in the
| trenches. facing the German bullets
so this will probably be his last book
| After that. 1t seems to him almost
| indicate to write anything more
| Under the first title in THE Sunny
Side" Oranges and Lemons" are de
tailed the humorous adventures Of q
party of original people at loaned
| villa on the Riviera. Men Of Let
| ters" burlesques certain literary types
and methods. For example, Hamlet
| soliloquizes in the twentieth century
| over the telephone. The sports and
holiday-making of Summer are whim
| sically treated In Summer Days
war Time" includes a number OF
| sketches Of the ludicrous minor hap
penings of wartime life. both in Eng
| nd and at the front. Home Notes. ~
"A Few Guests" and And Others
are the remaining titles. Throughout
| the volume, as Mr.. Milne says, "odd
| verses have crept In on the unan'
| swerable plea that II they didn't DO II
now they never would" For example
The sun may shine at Colchester
! The rain may rain at PENCE:
| From low hung skies the dawn may rise
| Broodngly on Stonehenge
| Knee deep in clover. the lambs at Dover
| Nibble q while and stare:
But there's only one place in the world fol-
Berkeley. Berkeley Square.
| X X X
| In the folk literature of the United
| States, Indian songs and legends and
negro songs are fundamental. More
has been done to collect and preserve
the former type than the latter. A
recent book by Dorothy Scarborough
l 4. i,ocn,lco nf &c nrtrihalt ica,