Evening star., 1933-09-24

ingiy cutting into strips for her hooked rug II
red dress Of Winnie Gardiner, Pats sister, ha}
ing With some difnculty extracted 1t from NJ
Gardner. who thought Winnie might well wed
It another Summer Seven-year-old Pat whoI
Judy Adores and believes to have been touch&
BY . leprachaun. interestedly watches the r,1e
progress and chatters TO Judy Listening |
Judys tales Of the changes in her own life. RI
pAssionately declares that she hates chaEg'
and means never to leave Silver Bush Th
intense devotion Of Pat to her island home
the uncomplicated theme of the pleasa}
story.
The last scene in the book, the climax. reite|
ates the theme. Pat has reached the age q
love-making and Hilary, young student about
take . fve-year course in architecture at II
routo makes . very fitting lover. The separ}
ton OF true lovers, inevitable in romances
an earlier day. provides the ending here, b
We are assured that there will be q reunio|
Meanwhile Pat, blindly stumbling across Il
aed to the garden gate thinking tearfully
the loss of her friend and playfellow nny
comfort and content in the sight of the mod
rising over the Hill Of Mist and shedding (
beams over the orchard, in the booming of u
gulf tides in the harbor. in the thought OF II
old barns in which so many kittens had frd|
icked-in ecstatic love for Silver Bush. HI
loyal home, so fun of happy yesterdays aI|
hopeful of happy tomorrows. Humor is su
piled to the story, which sometimes threatens
become too sweetly sentimental by the charaI
ter OF Judy. who sleeps under an autograE|
quilt because she likes when she wakes 70 !
and look at the names Of the people she hi
known who are now snug under ground, VIII
she is still hearty and kicking" Pats visi
to the great-aunts, three of them at Bay Sho'
Farm. or 'Dont-touch-it House are also hi
morously described. Most girls from 10 to
will delight in Pat of Silver Bush and manY
woman will find it a relief from more sophist|
Gated fiction.
THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS. 4
Edgar Lee Masters. New York: Sheldd
Dick.
THIS de luxe, limited edition of six poenj
five Of them new, by one of our foremd|
American poets, is most attractive in make-,'
and general physical appearance. even befo|
we come to the actual reading of the poen}
The g.. by IL pages. with their long lines aI|
good margins are tempting to the eye II
poems are "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony an
the King Cobra" previously published) "O&
on America" The Seven Cities of America
The Serpent in the Wilderness" ;" "PrometheuI
and Song for the Dead Gods" One famiE}
with the work of Mr.. Masters will not expey
conventional or orthodox treatment of the seen
ingly patriotic themes of the second and thil
poems mentioned. He deals in the iconoclasti
the denunciatory. and Is not averse to shockiI|
his readers If he can accomplish it. But read
ers have been 80 often shocked Of late by a}
thors who write of fact which Is disturbing th/
they are able to read the diatribes of the mo
cynical Of poets with the utmost sangfroj
Perhaps the most excellent poem in the volun
is the one already published Beethoven is IL
highest in the intellectual and imaginatiI
scale of life and the King Cobra is the loves
but the highest has the art and power
charm the lowest. The Song for the Ded
Gods" has unusual beauty in many of its lind
and its theme Of the reverent burial OF old b
liefs when they are more beautiful, beilI
dead. is significant Of modern thought as vej
as POLITICALLY inventive. The poems of the vo|
ume are uneven in verse values but this is tr}
Of all collections of poetry. 1t is to be antic|
pated that before long these six poems will
published in larger collection available to (
readers at a usual price.