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Mar Memoirs Of Da0id Lloyd Gemge-7he
Rossettis and Their Curle-Advpntures
in the Yukon Country.

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own control, and it is time that you began to
do something about it."
DR.. Pitkin's earlier book, Life Begins at
Forty" published some months ago, is still on
best-seller lists. 1t has indubitably put new
life into many people who were beginning to
talk about being too old for this or that. This
new book starts from the simple idea that
energy is the key to achievement, and shows
how, with intelligent thought. men and women
may add not to their stature. but to their
energy MaladjuStments are responsible for
defects in energy Self training can double
energy and, result, efficiency. There are
crtain energy accelerators and retarders, some
native to the individual, some external. THE
lists Of these are most Interestingly Energy
often determines the job Energy has rhythns.
There are rules for human power plants and
for human engineering. You should be your
own sef-starter. You may outwit fatigue and
much bad health. There are in most people
untapped reservoirs Of energy Versatility has
great value. 1t is possible to make matter
work for you. These are some Of the many
suggestions which are worked out in pragmatic
fashion in More Power to Your which seems
certain to find q large and widely spread fol-
lowing Of readers.
TALIFER. BY Edwin Arlington Robinson. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
OF the same type as "Cavender's House."
~ The Glory of the Nightingales" and
Matthias at the Door," "Talifer' blends dra-
matte narrative with symbolism, in poetry that
is neither conventional nor ultra-modern. As
always, Mr.. Robinson finds his inspiration in
human beings and the subtleties of their dis
traught minds. Nature is to him merely a set
ting. usually a symbolical one for human per-
sonalities. 1t is rarely, even more rarely in
hic lot I. .sc S~>A-. ery,>
hackeney epithet of the American Browning
applied to Mr.. Robinson, with the implication
that his poetry is involved and obscure seems
hardly justified. "Talifer," like his other mar
rative poems. tells, in lines of great poetic
beauty and carrying clear significance to any
but a careless reader Of conflicting human emo
tons and the eternal search for peace and
happiness,
Samuel Talifer, Esquire.
With white, new trousers and Leghorn hat,
And a blue coat"
is so intensely loved by Althea that DR.. Quick.
the philosopher friend OF both, says:
~ hope to God there is no woman
Who could love me as you love Talifer."
Talifer has loved her, but finds himself drawn
away to the cold and beautiful Karen "as cool
and lovely as trout" with "a saints face of
ivory white" who has
Inherited face, and little else
Than a cool brain. Let her be boiled or frozen
Her feminine temperature, if she has any.
Would feel no change"
The emotional crisis in the three lives is
passed without disaster to any of them, through
the wise meddling of DR.. Quick and serenity
and happiness end the situation in a manner
quite unusual in Mr.. Robinsons poetry. Tall
fer" is much slighter in theme and less intense
emOtionally than the three narrative poems
already mentioned, or 'Tristram" which con-
tains some Of Mr.. Robinson's best work.
TALES OF RUSSIAN GRANDMOTHER By
Frances Carpenter. Garden City: Double
day, Doran & Co.
\ /RS. Frances Carpenter Huntington visited
IVI most of the interesting parts of the world
with her father, Frank Carpenter, journalist
and author of geographical readers which are
both popular and educational. Travelling with
him and acting as his secretary, she became as
keen an observer as he and early developed
gift Of her own for writing, which she employed
both as his collaboration and in books of her indi-
vidual authorship. A year or so ago her TALES Of
a Basque Grandmother" prepared after stay of
some months in the Basque country, delighted
all the children and young people who were
fortunate enough to discover it or have it given
to them. "Tales Of Russian Grandmother"
dedicated to Mrs Huntmgton's young daugh-
tiers, is another book of the same type; another,
we hope in an extended series. It is beauti-
fully illustrated in colors and black and white
by I. Bilibne. The tales. or 'shaZki," here
retold. are from numerous sources, "chief Of
which is the monumental collection of Alan
asef." The setting chosen is that Of large
Russian country estate before the war. Two
Russian children, Kyril and Sonia listen to
the tales told by their old nurse, Nianya; who