Evening star., 1927-07-17
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

1DaA UllDEhl M EHh0'
THE CANDLE IN THE CABIN: BY
.achel Lindsay, author OF Gong
to the Stars etc. New YORK: -.
Appleton & Co.
" o be a poet is good. maybe. Ic
be vaEabond and poet in one Is
quite indubitably good. Ger
tainly an enviable urge that
which drives one here and
there away into the beautiful Ioneli'
nesses of nature itself. complete
thing this impulsion, when II Is cou'
pled with the gift to shape the moods
of such an outfaring into songs OF
sheer exultation, into paeans of pure
ioy. Vachel Lindsay, vagabond ana
poet. shouts and calls to his tribe mere
in a rapture of self.discovery, OF self
Identification with the spirits or
mountain and forest and leaping wa
terfall, with the souls of beast ana
bird and the furtive moving things or
deep undergrowths:
The ten hunting. dogs in my heart
Have captured 46 wears
In a wood that is dewy with tears.
The ten hunting dogs in my heart
Have .captpred. as hunting dogs should
All the wild birds that call :. A., .,oa
In my rustic cage, in my house IN the "ood'
The ten hunting dogs in my heart u
Have helped tame the chipmunks and smail
They drive Pf"s mountain lions back. back. to
They help me to feed on elk meat.
And my heart must beat to their rustIns
And these are their names:
America. Beauty. Song
The Indian. the Lover, the Brother the
The Chief 30 Man Tames.
And here. delicate and swinging in
Poes own cadence:
Then the dragon fly led
The home of a. somnolent indolent breeze
The dragon fly led
To one lone lake
The true lovers own.
The sweet secret lake,
Past hundreds and hundreds OF trees.
Hundreds and hundreds of trees.
Just a little book to carry around in
the hand reading as one goes. Just
a big book, packed with beauty and
the freedom of life, with the joys and
revelations of deep solitudes.
X x X X
A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES DURING
LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATIVE
BY John Bach McMaster, emeritus
University Of Pennsylvania. New
"a S Richard Green in his notable
History of England" did, so
John Bach McMaster also has done
in his History of the United States. :"
For the first time in a chronicle of
nations each of these distinguished
scholars turned squarely about, away
from an exclusive consideration of
potentates and powers, away from mil
itary conquests and defeats, each with
its sequence of territorial gain or loss.
In place of such conventional plan
these writers adopted the sounder one
of facing directly upon the people
themselves as the only authentic
source of national development and
character. For more than 80 years
McMaster. scholar and investigator,
followed the trends of public opinion
and the reactions of the people in
each vital stage of American history
between the Revolution and the Civil
War. This expert study is embodied
in eight volumes that constitute, not
only an authoritative work on the
period lying between these two points.
but it presents also the most readable
of histories to the great mass of
Americans, who are not, as matter of
fact. vitality concerned with marching
armies and military achievements.
The book in hand is, in attitude and
method, of a piece with the entire
in the record OF the United States. It
begins with the rise of the Confed.
crate provisional government. It ends
with the death of Lincoln and its
immediate effect upon the political
reconstruction Of the country. In be-
tween, upon a skeleton of war and a
threatened Union, the author from
first to last seeks the people them
selves, North and South, from whose
opinions and passionate beliefs sprung
the problems of that tragic period and
from whom also issued the ultimate
solution of many a momentus queS-
ton. This new viewpoint has uncov-
cred fresh material, whose quality is
such as to make immediate appeal
to the people as a whole, since 1t is
drawn off from the great common
source of feeling and action upon
which the Government of this coun-
try itself rests, certainly in theory,
and upon the whole, upon which 1t
rests in practice, too. Here is not
only a generally ineligible history
OF the period, but it is, besides, a
study of truer proportions than the
conventional military surveys that
pass for the history of country.
Intensely interesting. it is bound to
be, this record of the people Of the
United States facing disruption OF
the Union and the dissolution of a
government so hardly won to inde.
pendence from the royal power of
England.
DAWN: A lost r~mance of the time
of Christ. BY Irving Bacheller,
author of 1.-THE Scudders." etc.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
MOODS and themes among writers
AVA are catching, as many other
things besides disease are also con-
fapiolls-Such as for instance. cour.