Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
THE LIBRARY TABLE
By The BookIOrer.

by Ernest Poole, does not hunt to XIII.
he hunts to preserve. His prey is not
the wild living things of the woods and
| fields, but the folk songs of easant
villagers, the steppe, the river, the
prairie. the ranch and the battlefield
Grandfather Wade The Is the grand
father of little Amory Barnes) has had
"a long string of adventurings' for
such quiet little man of Sc. A
ma tural musician and Bohemian in
his habits of life, he years ago found
! his job as a music critic on a small
| newspaper too tame for his tastes.
So he spent some months on a friend s
ranch In New Mexico, just before the
end of the cowboy era. where he was
| in time 10 collect many of the cowboy
songs, which he published in small
book. Ills love of the songs of the
people and his taste for rowing had
both been stimulated by this expert
ence and in the years that followed
he collected other sonGs-of the Indi-
ans and the Forty-Niners and later
on. Of the poor whites who lived in the
mountains of Tennessee He traced
thelr songs across the sea to Engla nd
a nd in later years his sea riches led to
Russia. 10 Poland and Bohemia.
Book after book appeared in New
York. But more and more, as
time went on. he hunted for the songs
or today. In this hard, crowded. mod
erh age. were the peoples of the ca nth
sun making songs of their own out of
doors, or were they allowing the new
song factories in the towns to make
songs for them like their clothes? He
summed the great centers and spent
ms time with the people in the vii
ldSes-peasants, herdsmen, fisher folk
barsemen. woodsmen, mountai neers
rear by year he moved farther east
10 Persia and the Caucasus: and he
had already made long trip TO India
when the war began"
=
! But when the story Of The Hunt.
er Moon begins. Grandfather
| Wade tournevings are over and he
is ready 10 settle down. Not. of course
IN New York. That Is the las, place
ne would choose. He has in his mind
mat big ranch in New Mexico and
means 10 go there as soon as he can
get lew matters arranged The most
important matter of all is Amorv. So
III this delicate. ina gina tive story
Ernest Poole tells US what took pla &c
/ uurihS lew DAYS and nights at the
tlne OF the big hunters moon in Oc-
tIoer; "hat really happens is a strug-
sIe Tor the body and soul Of little
Amory between slender. sensitive
era ndfa Their Wade and big inSenSi-
i've, determined Ora ndmother Barnes
! For Ora ndfather Wade's daughter has
married Ora ndmother Barnes son and
they are the parents of Amory They
nave not been happy in their married
! Ire. DO" should they be-the dauSh-
Ter OF Il music loving va bond and
the son of a hard. driving. success
"orshipins woman? When the final
contest over Amory comes. the par
/ ents stand Al one side and the cra nd
( parents fight il out. Ora ndmother
! Barnes fights with set laws and with
! brutal Sneers and threats: Ora ndfa ther
J " AIDE nights smllincly and courteouslv
I but with q few keen truths Grand
: iho'hef barnes woos Amory with a
/ new ba nix for his pennies q nd with her.
: good cooking: Ora ndfather Wade PLAYS
! 70 MIN on his ukulele and tells him
Storles of the ranch in New Mexico
Wnefe ne wants TO take him TO live
! ne result is predeStined. for Amorv is
an WADE. not at all Barnes. He is q
enid through whose brain move pic.
/ lures. in whose ears songs sing them
selves, when he Is alone in the dark.
ne victory takes place up on the
! ROOF OF New York apartment house
the favorite haunt of Amory and his
grandfather. There. among the chin.
| neNs, Tar above the roaring ira ffic of
the street and the scream of the fire
siren, by the light OF the great hunt
! or moon, Grandfather Wade awakens
AInorN. asleep against warm chin
ney. Well. old scout. ii s over now. .
! he saws. Your father says you can
come with me Sleepy Amorv can
only stammer: oh. that's ine-that's
fine And rho bio rn,,rd
moon seemed TO think 50. too. ],
/ smiled and shone in q jolly way. as
! though IL We're glad that one more
small boy was 10 gel away from the
! c1tN-and live with about million
! COWS.
Nearly 80 wears after her death
| Emily Dickinson complete poems are
! published, introduced and edited bv
her niece. Martha Dickinson Bianchi.
In reading them, one IS impressed bv
their lack of metrical regula rity-that
| is. by their free verse" quality. No,
only might Walt Whitman. the
/ rugged. claim early apostleship of
| lconoclastic verse. but this delicate
New England recluse. who never
claimed anything, should also be
| placed among the literary ancest ors
OF such moderns as Edgar Lee Masters
and Ezra Pound. Amy Lowell and
Edna st. Vincent Millav. 1t was
/ Emily Dickinson who, back in the
eighties, wrote
/ victory comes late