PJT7 " -s 7 ' h EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919 tL3 AND THE RHYMERS, THEY RHYME FOR US EVERY DAY SOME NEW FICTION -. wt'SRtiSw '.''" V nSrqJjS' "' J " i :?Wt'v"i"ii' '" af;--'"''-' " - jn,? . "isNHli'W BIG AND LITTLE POETS OFFER THEIR VERSE TO US Some Comment on the Work of Richardson, Stephen Bcnct, Middleton, McClure, Mrs. Kilmer, Dabcttc Deutsch, Townc and Whcclock TT 18 the modo nowadays for 13ng A Hsh men o letters to voyage, the sea (the U-boat peril having been replaced by that older hazard of the lady from Itoston in the adjoining deckchair) la order (so they say) to get in touch with the American poets who nro really worth while. One hears echoes of their progress among the literary dinner tables. Alas, many n shy American poet who might have had the delight of being discovered by these adventurers from the older Helicon is frustrated by the rapacious hospitality of our gran dees. Hugh Walpole, wo learn, was kidnapped from the Mnurctnnta by a Newport steam yacht before the liner was fairly berthed, and haled willy nilly to the damask napcries of Nar ragansett while the envoy of hit New York publisher gaped forlornly on the Cunard line pier. It is a pity (so ono may think who has the literary rapprochement of the two countries warmly at heart) that our exploring friends aic not left a little more to themselves, to wander obser vantly about and see things quietly, rrnrltinllv fnrmlnc their 0W1 conclu sions. Instead, thev have thrust upon them the catchwords of that literary coterie which happens (by unstinted use of wireless) to capture them first ami salt them down with wild hospitality. Amid all the hubbub about Amy Lowell and Carl Sandburg and A achel Lind say, amid the clang of crockery and u tint:..ihn1iitinn nf in7'Z. do our 'Toung Visiters" scent tnc spoor in some writers whose work is ndmirably significant, though little touted? The American poets who have most to say to an attentive ear are not always those who chant loudest at gatherings of the poetry societies. Glancing over some recent volumes of American poctiy, one wonders how many commentators have noticed the Mruly exquisite and austerclv measured sonnets of .Times Edward Richardson, a Philadelphlan, who sets up his poems on his own printing press. To read Mr. Richardson's book. "The lort-Altar and Other Poc'"S," is to meet a mind of beautiful courage and sensitiveness; a mind in which one finds the consoling ' comradeship of gentle bitter.ness. In his tense, shrewd, passion-shuken verses, "There gleams a subtle moment now and then of perfect apprehension." William Rose Benet and his ounger brother, Stephen Vincent Benet, aro the Rnrnnm & Tinllcv of the younger American poetry. Will Benet's delicious gift of fantasy is aircativ wen Known. Stephen Benet, in his "Young Adven ture," shows the same golden and priceless heritage of wild, gorgeous imagination. WitH this lie knits a Hiinnle. cvinnnstic grace in the sonnet. He is akin at once to Itupcrt Brooke and James Elroy flecker. The com nnrlcnn of the two BeilctS to Mcs-srs. ftarrmm & Bailey is no mero phrase. Behind the gorgequs pageantry of their giddv trapeze work, their gilded cages of lions and apes, is the carefully nlotted cunning and precision of trained artists. There is no young poet in America iof whom more niav be ex pected than Stephen Benet. His bril liant jets of humor, his Oriental-extravagance of theme, Ijls unfaltering Subject to Changs MONDAY ALHAMBRA . t) 12th. Morria Passyunlc Ay. Robert In APOLLO B2d and Thompson Bta, () ''Marv Iho ABCADIA V Chestnut below loth Bt. (a) Jack Plckford In lluriclar bv Proxy BELMONT 51!d above Market St. () GUdjs The BMJEDIBD , . W Broad 4 Susquehanna. Aw. Vivian Martin In Tho Third Kiss BROADWAY Broad and Snyder Ave. () Doualas ills BROAD BT. Auditorium, IIn Broad St. ab. Rockland Geraldlne Farrar In The World and Its Woman S-P1TOL . x 722 Market () D W. Broken St. CEDVR , 60th St. and Cedar Ave, Blllla Burko In Tho Mlsleadlnc Widow COLISEUM . ...k Market Bet. BOth and 60th nobert Warwick in Told In the Hills ( Doua: Fairbanks. His Majesty the American Gtn. and Maplewood Avea. EMPRESS Main St., () Douglas Ills Manayunk. ""othnd Markat BU. J, W. Kerilgan In Just Man TAMELV 1811 Market St. (J Mitchell Faith of FAIRMODNT ' 26th St. and Olrard Atb. FRANKFORD 4716 Ptankford Ava Stello K Tho Trice Done. Fairbanks In His Majesty the American FRANRXIN , ... Third and ntiwater Bta. () Svlvia Breamer in The Moonshlno Trail torn st. inEATRE Below Spruce Bt, (a) Wm Woles GREAT NORTHERN Broad Bt. at Eria Ave. () D VT Broken DfPERIAI, 60th and Walnut Bta. () D. W. Broken iXFEERBON S8th and Dauphin Bta. Hale Hamilton In The Four-flusher ITJMBO M , M . ) Front St. and Olrard Ava. Mabel In LEADER 41at and Lancaster Ave. () Ilobert Warwick In Told in the Hills UBEETY , () Broad and Columbia, Ava. Taylor Holmes in A Reuular Fellow Ilobert Warwick In In Mlzzoura LOCUST 62d and Locust Bta. () MARKET ST. THEATRE 833 MaVket Bt. Dorothy ( Bight to MODEL 429 South Bt. () Eugene O'Brien Tho Terfect Lover NIXON Ki and Markat Bta. () J, Warren Kerrlaan in Tho Joyoua Liar Special btar Cast In Auction of Souls OVERBROOK 63d and Haverford Ave, (a) TlavM PALACE 1214 Market St. (J The Teeth Fannie Ward In Our Better Selvea Ware Ave. Dauphin Bt Monroe Salisbury in The Sundown Trail TRINCESS, 1018 Markat 8L ( "iPafket St. below lTth. ( Marauerlte Clark in Luck In Puv.il BIALTO Otn. at alpehockea. () IVOLI w g2d and Sanaom Sta. ) Jinx Beach's The Crimson Gardenia Sesaua Hayahawa In The Dracon Painter RUBY () Tr. Tl arket Bt. below 7th. For tt Woman'a Honor BAVOY 1211 Market St. () Theda Bara In La Bella Bussa STANLEY Markat abova J6th. M Bert Lvtell In Lombardl, Ltd. BTRAND (sj Qermantown Ava. at Venanio Tourneur'a The Life Line VICTORIA Ninth and Market Bta. () All-Star Cast In Checkers WEST ALLEGHENY SCth and Allegheny ( Mabel atrs marlMl () obtain sktures throujh tn. STANLEr COMPANT Oi AM 'Tjwea senso of locly form, are a rare en dowment. Scudder afiddlcton's "The New Day" does not qulto crrtlfy the promise of liis earlier volume; the war has borne n little heavily upon his spirit, for which, however, one honors him. His war sonnets seem a little ndipobc, though qulckcne'd by one noble line The grace of flesh, the dancer in the brain. But lie has the seeing eye. One goes to the poets for a grim realization of our own sodden cioddlshness. There is so much mart el and ecstasy in life that they see and most of us miss. The bend and turn of n head, the profile of n city ugaiust the dusk, these are the common counters of daily life. In the post's inkpot they become immortal seizures of beauty and meaning. Mr. Middleton sees deeply and painfully; he will jet learn to bring his message to us with irresistible truth. John McClure, of Ardmore, Okla homa, has adopted simplicity as his method. Unfortunately, it is a studied nnd stultified simplicity, with ,only an occasional flash of valuable beauty. Most of his "Airs and Ballads" were written before be was twenty-four, and as ho declines deeper into the gulf of jcars his sense of humor (which is sound, if not subtle) will lead him to ward moro generous inspiration, He is akin to some other western poets in hnving chosen u rather1 pretentious oracular utterance for insubstnntial musings, A fnlse posture of simplicity is even more tedious than ovcradoru ment. Aline Kilmer's "Candles That Burn" is exactly what the title implies. Her Ivties have the true simplicity, the clear, quiet glow, the serene nnd lovclv illumination of tuneis in n twi light room. They burn for the most part in the dusk of remembered sor row, but it is a sorrow that strengthens nnd purifies the heart. Mrs. Kilmer's beautifully varied cadences, the un faltering perfection of her music, the dainty precision of her lines, show her ns probably the most truly gifted of our feminine siugeis. There is a noble beauty in iicr little book. Behind the sense of tears that hushes her utterance one feels also u quick and ready laugh ter, a delightful humor and iiony that betoken a strong and vivid mind. Babette Deuthch gives us, in "Ban ners," an unconscious revelation of the ontrast between free verse and' poetry. In her wild, bacchanalian, ecstatic book there are somo very fine explosions of vers libre, but they seem thin and wiry compared to her sonnets, which arc well joined and muscular. She has been touched by the Chinese boom which has bet many wenkmiuded veislfiers to nd miring the shredded translations from the Orient, but she lias the promise of lipe and mellow stuff witli the discipline of time. Charles' Hanson Towne writes "A World of Windows," and through these clear panes of sound versifying we see his iridescent and sympathetic soul brandishing its nrms in a pale blue ether. Mr. Townc is a true noct. but. iin- fortunately for his art, too much of a poet. He feels the beauty and color ot tnc carta so Kccnlv anil enters so violently into the emotions of humanity that his utterance grows somewhat oversugarert. "Mr. Ton ne is. one " of those poets to whom a governmental SEE ANNOUNCEMENT DAILY IN THE PUBLIC LEDGER AND EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHOTOPLAY PRESENTATIONS FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 1 TUESDAY Warwick In Mlzzoura Robert Warwick in In Mlzzoura rickford In Hoodlum Marv Plckford in The Hoodlum Sack Plckford in BurRtar by Proxy Leslie In Climbers GIadyH Leslie In Tho Climbers Robert Warwick in Told in the Hills Robert Told Fairbanks Majesty Douglas Fairbanks His Majesty OeraldhiB Farrar in The World and Its Woman Elsie Witness Griffith's Blossoms t W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms Blllla Burke In Tlra Misleading Widow Robert Warwick in Told In the Hills Dour. Fairbanks. His Majesty tho American Fairbanks Majesty Douglas Fairbanks Hla Majesty Mabel Normand In When Doctors Disagree Lewla In the Stronff DcTothv Dalton In The Weaker Sex Talbot in of Innocence Mauri Tourneur'a Woman Doujr Fairbanks In Hla Maiesty the American Hale Hamilton In The Four-flusher Farnum In of the Night Mm Tarnum In Wolea of tho Night Orlfflth'a Blossoms D W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms drlrtlth'a Blossoms D W Grlfflth'a Broken Blossoms Evelvn Greely in The Oakdale Affair Guv Tho Normand Mickey Mabel Normand In Mickey Robert Warwick In Told In the Hills Charles Ray in The. Egg-Crate Wallop Robert Warwick In In Mlzzoura Phllllna.ln The Dnrothv Philllna In The Right to Happiness Dorothv Happiness Want Eugene O'Brien The Perfect Lover J. Warren Kerrigan tn Tho Joyoua Liar J, Special Star Cast in Auction of Souls tie Towell In David Powell In The Teeth ot the Tlgjr of the Titer Tho George Beban In Hearts ot Men Mabel Normand in when Doctors Disagree Anita Marguerite Clark in Luck In Pawn Vivian Martin in The Third Klsa llaflgo the Sessue Hayaknwa in Tho Dragon Painter Warner In Vivian Martin in The Third Klsa Herbert Rawlinson in A Dangeroqa Affair Mary Bonnie, Bert Lvtell In Lombardl, Ltd. Tourneur'a The Llfa Line Ail-Star Cast In Checkers Mabel Normand In Mickey Normand In Mickey ration of intellectual sugar in small manila envelopes will bo helpful and bracing. But he is always lucid, al ways bright and honest in technique, and always roused to the higlust pitch of agreeablo excitement by his romantic themes, Ono wonders how a man so stirred by the manifold nppeals of beauty can havo remained so long a bachelor. Safety in numbers, ono concludes. Mr. Towiio is unquestionably (with Vachel Lindsay) the most rainbow-minded bachelor in America. John Hall Whcclock, In "Dust and Light," has written n volume of poetry of the highest order, nnd one which deserves the faithful scrutiny of every honest lover of the muse. It is doubt ful whether any man in America tan writo better sonnets than Mr. Wheel ock. In his lines passion and stricken apprehension of life's lovely and tor turing riddles mount upon a fiercely tempered soberness in expression. Such poems ns he lias written In this fine col lection give one happy opportunltj to foreet the shallow absurdities of many of our joungcr choir. He has the sense of words ns medicinal sirups for thci human heart. 0. M, , THE FOnEST-AI.TAn AND OTIIHn rn.nMsi llv .rumen Edward IllrhnrilnMti I Copyright bv the author. Philadelphia ' YOUNO AIiVENTURB. ny mepnen v inrent rtenet. New Haven: Yale University I'resa THK'nEW DAY. ny ScucMer Middleton New York: The Marmlllan Company. It AIRS AND DAl.UADS. lly John McClure .New York A A Knopf. II, CANDLES THAT IlimN Hy Aline. Kilmer New York. George It. Dornn Company HANNE11H llv Habette Deutsch. Nw York lleorae II Dnran Company, II J A WOULD OF WINDOWS. lly Charles Hanson Towne, aeorgo 11. jioranioin , DTOTAND LIGHT Ilv John K- Whejjnek , New York Charles Scrlbner a Sons, II 3U War-Inspired Poems In "The Village Wife's Lament" Maurice Hewlett has written n long lyrico-narrativo poem of love and the war. The general flow is iambic, but monotony is avoided by skillful sub stitutions of trochees, cclic dactyls and anapests and also by internal rhymes and vnnations in me riuuzuii: '"' In meter it is very fluent nnd ensj to read. In content it tells the reaction of a country girl first to love of the one man for her and then to the sacrifices imposed by the war. Mr. Hewlett says, in a note appended, that his poem is "dramatic," but it is dramatic only in the sense that Biowning's dramatic monologues are dramatic. It is the drama of meditation, and introspection. Iu the same note he says the poem voices his own objection to wars ot aggicssion. Wars for defense of home, native land, one's familv, he under stands; but war for land lust or im position of any racial or national kulttir he reprehends in this poetic philippic. He ssjs: "Tho villnge wife knows nothinir of the Germans, however, and her reproaches btrikc at the heart of mankind. So long ns mankind looks on aggressive war as a reasonable, if ultimate appeal, her reproaches will hae force nnd be deserved." And very indubitably this is precisely the attitude that many starved nna ronneii women have of even n war waged for civiliza tion and democracy and freedom tho abstractions are nothing to them in the poignancy of their own concrete loss. "War Mothers." bv Kdvvnrd Onresehe, S. J., editor of The Queen's Woi'k,' takes -the other and perhaps more conventional viewpoint of woman's willing sacrince and service of volition in wnr for abstract principles bound up with the cause of human fieedom from nutoeracy. Father Gareschc's poems recognize the pangs of personal loss, but are rich in tho solace of the spirit that serves 'and saei'lfices nnd benrs the burdens without bitterness. The sense of spiritual devotion runs convincingly through these poems. "My .Flag and My Boy," by Lieu- WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Robert Warwick In in Mlzzoura King Baggot In Tho Man Vho Stayed Home Marv Plckford In Tho Hoodlum Tavlor Holmes In Three Black Eves Jark Plckford in Burglar bv Proxy Tack Plckford In Burglar by Proxv Gladys Leslie In The Cllmbera Anita Ptewart In Hivman Desire Warwick In In the Hills Pessue Havakawa in The Dragon Painter Douglas Fairbanks Hla Majesty Pauline Frederick Bonds of Love Ferguson In foi the Defense Theda Bara in La Belle Russe D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms Robert Warwick in In Mlzzoura Herbert Itawllnson In A Dangerous Affair Herbert Rawlinson In A Ddngerous Affairv Marguerite Clark In Idow by Proxy Marguerite Clark In Widow by Proxy Doug Fairbanks, His Majesty the American Doug Fairbanks, Hla Majesty the American Dolores Casenelli in Hla Majesty D, W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms Eugene O'Brien In The Terftct Lover Olive Thomas in Upstairs and Down Harrv Morey In In Honor's Web - i ' Marv Plckford In The Hoodlum 1 Blanche Sweet In Tho Unpardonabto Sin Mary Plckford In Tho Hoodlum Doug Fairbanks In His Majesty the American Doug Fairbanks In His Majesty the American Dolores CnaeneW In The Mrtuous Model Olive Thomas In Prudence on Broadway Anita btewart In Human Desire Florence- Reed In Woman Under Oath D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms D W. Griffith's Broken Btossoips D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms Empey In Undercurrent Rex Beach's TrAductlon The Utn From Outside Mabel Normandy In Mickey Mahet Normand tn Mickey Tourneur'a Tho Life Line " . ' Marguerite Clark jln Widow by Prqxy. Tourneur'a The Life Line vt Wallace Reld In The. Lottery Man Robert Warwick in In Mlzzoura t Enid Bennett In Stepping Out Phllllpa in The Mildred Harris Chaplin r "iij;Home to Happiness Sessue Havakawa The Man Beneath Merry-Go-Round Warren Kerrigan id Herbert Rawllneon The Carter, Case iltr juyuua w,r All-Star Cast In A LIN Peggy Hvlaiid In i-iUowardtoo Court Brother or the Well ruvld Powell In '' David Powell In The Teeth of the Tiger Teeth of the Tiger Oeraldlne Farrar The World and Its .'Woman deraldlno Farrar The World and Ita Woman Stewart tn Her Evelyn Oreelev In The Oakdale Affair 'Marguerite Clark In Luck In Pawn Jtlngaom oi urcams Marguerite Plark'tn Luck In Pawn Kennedy Thru Wrong iDoor Charlie Rav Thw Egg-Crate Wallop Sessue Hayaknwa tn The Dragon Painter neraldlne Farrar The World and It Woman Herbert Rawlinson In A Dangerous Affair Ora Carew in Loot MacLarerh In Bonnie Lassla CrelghtontlUte In Tho Black Circle Bert Lvtell In Lombardl. Ltd Bert Lvtell in Lombardl, Ltd Tourneur'a The Ltfe Line Enid Bennett In Stepping Out All-Star Cast In Checkers All-Btar Caet In Checkers Mabel Normand In Mickey Mabel Normand In Mickey ISRlOA.Ust' Is':k rsaVwtao of'Mrlr ESISSH'TISr i r icikb ' mHL filial iim.. aik t . ti . r . i -.Tairw . ; . ku ail jr. t MRS. GBNK STHATTON-POUTKR Autlior of "Homo With the Birds," at her llmbcrlost cabin tenant William H. Barter, who paid the supremo sacrifice, is a collection of simple-minded nnd simple-hearted songs and bnllads richly endowed witu patriotism and strong in homely virtues. The verses are smoothly written, and nlthough not grcatdn a poetic way.Jinie a grace and charm nnd Inspiration ot their own. Captain James Fcnimore Cooper, great-grandson of the novelKt, likewise gave his life for his countrj. His friends hap collected "Afterglow" from college papers and other sources, the verses written during his brief 'lifetime He was a graduate of Yale, 101!5, and died in IVbiuary, THIS. Many of the poems, which cover a variety of subjects, including the wnr, nro simply metric exercises loverly composed, but oc cnsionulh there is a touch of sheer originality in concept and content, as in the flashing lines to Ethel Leglnska, the pianist. In other words most of this talented jouth's erses rework the material of other men's experiences, the conventional stuff of the mass of poetrj , but in the Leginska poem there is the vivid illumination' nf a personal knowl edge. Without comparing them to the verses of such "inheritors of unfull filled renown" ns Itupert Brook and Alan Seeger, ns Prof, H.-A. Beers, of Yale, who writes an introduction, points out, they have qualities that give promise of future achloiement. THE VILLAOi: WirE'S LAMENT lly Maurice Hewlett. New York., O. P Iut- nam'a rona MY TI.AG AND MY DOY lly William H Barter, ronton: The Paae Company WAIl MOTHERS. lly Udnard OareBchc. New York: Menalger Ilron AFTERGLOW lly James Kenlmoro Cooper. New JIaen:-Yae University Press. FRIDAY SATURDAY King Baggot In The Man Who Staved Home King Baggot In The Man Who Staved Home Harry Morev In In Honor's Web Anita Stewart In The Wreck Jack Plckford In Burglar bv Proxy Jack Plckford in Burglar bv Proxv Anita Stewart In Human Deslio Anita Stewart In Human Desire May Allison In Almost Married Dorothy Daiton in The Market nf Roula Paulino Frederick Bonds of Love Pauline Frederick Bonds of Love Theda Bara In La Belle Husse King Baggot In The Man Who Stasrd Home -t- Robert Warwick In In Mlzzoura Robert Warwick In In Mlzzoura Charles Ray In The Egg-Crate Wallop Charles Ray In The Kgg-Crate Wallop Herbert Rawlinson In A Dangerous ffalr Herbert Rawlinson in A Dangerous Affair Doug Fairbanks, His Majesty the American Doug Fairbanks. Hla Majesty the American D W Griffith's Broken Hlossoms D W. Grlfflth'a Broken Blossoms Wallace Reld In The Vallej of Giants Wallace Reld in The Valley of alants Dorothv Phillips in Destiny Marv Plckford In The Hoodlum J Warren Kerrigan tn The Joyous Liar Bessie Barrlscale In Klttv Kelly, M. D Doug Fairbanks In, His Majesty tho American Sessue Havakawa in Tho Courageous Coward Lew Cody In Are You legally Married? William Rusaell in Hero Stuff Guy Empey In The Undercurrent Guv Empey In The Undercurrent I) W Griffith's Broken Blossoms D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms D W Griffith's Broken Blossoms M" Plckford In The Hoodlum Mrv Plckford In The Hoodlum Mabvl Normand In Mickey Mabel Normand In Mickey Marguerite Clark In Widow by Proxy Marguerite Clark in Widow by Proxy Glsdja Brockvvelt In Chasing Rainbows Anita Ptewart in Her Kingdom of Dreams Enid Bennett ,In Stepping Out Enid Bennett in Stepping Out Mildred Ha'rls Chaplin In Home Mildred Harris Chaplin in itome Wm Farnum Wolvea of the Night Wm Farnum Wo'ves of the Night Herbert Rvvlinon In The Carter Case Herbert Rawlinson The Carter Case Marv Plckford In The Hoodlum Marv Plckford tn The Hoodlum nailri Powell In David Towell In The Teeth nf the Tieer The Teeth of the Tiger King ITaggot Who Stayed -The Man at Home Henry R Warner In For a Woman's Honor Madge Kennedy In Thrcuih 'Wrong- Door Lew Codv In Are Tou Lerally Married t ''Marguerite Clark in Luck, Jn Pawn Marguerite Clark tn buck In Pawn v William Farnum In Wolves ot the Night Anita Stewart tn Human Desire Oeraldlne Farrar The World and Ita Woman Oeraldlne Farrar The world ana lie woman Harry Morey In In lienor's Web Dolores Caslnel tn Virtuous Mocjel Delores Casln'lll In The Vlrtuoua Model dad'lalna Travse jn Snarea of Paris Bert L'tell in Lombardl. Ltd, Bert I.vtell in I,ombardl, l,. Enid Bennett tn Stepping Out Enid Bennett In Stepping; Out AU-Star Cast In Checkers All-star Cast in Checkers Mabel Normand In Mickey Mibsl Normand In Mickey showlns ot tb flnm productions. AU'pisturu Fitfl- H THE SOUL PROGRESS OF A TEMPERAMENT Rita Wellman's "Wings of Be sire" Study in Artist's Psychology "The Wines of Desire " !v Uitn Wellmnn, as a novel is episodic In -.tincture and sketchy in manner lint that lines not mean that it falls to inferior rank ns fiction in a cry penuine sense I hough it would hnrdlv pass muster on the criteria of technical foimulas, it liscs to n very superior level in its projection of character in conflicts of standpoint and iilnl with the people about and the world s conventions and in clashes of mood nnd purpose vvithln the indMdunl. Thus, if jou please, is, authentic fiition, whether it has a for mal heroine, a hero nhsoltite, a "plot" and u purpose, ethical, spiiituiil, moral, clinical or what not; whether it is ro mantic or lcnlistic; whither it edifies or amuses; whether it chastens morals with a fcmile or bludgeons morals with n liorrihle exumple What matteis in fiction, after all. is the leilection of life, not neccssaiilj full fuie in mi ensconced mirror, hut with the subject nnd the mirror at the .uious ancles of plausible temperament and believable situatiou and the candles iu the sconces varying the degree nnd intensity of the lighting. Miss Wellmau ii. "The Wines of De sire" has surpassed her studv of jacial tvpes and tempets, as dr.inmticiill.v set forth in "The (ientile Wife." n power ful plnv that litis not vit been staged And the reason is the same. She squeezes her diama or story out of her people, their environment:!, placements, attitudes and reactions ; she doex not force her people into her stoiy, pro i rusteanally leducing or exptiudiug mem to nt preconceived pint exigencies. "The Wings of Morning" is conditioned and colon l hj its dramatis personnel hut thev ate not controlled bj nitificinl demands of it ns u formal novel. These dramatic poisons are, cen trally, an nitlst nnd. biondly speaking, of the artistic temperament ; collaterally, the four women who ruled his life from enrlv youth to past the zenith, including nis foster mother, wlinm lie believed Ins real mother, an exotic womau, fond of ninny men, faithless to all, it painter who was not an nrtist iu pigments, but a terrlf.viug woman nf unusual and al most inncceptable beaut v, who was an artist in sensations and emotions; an artist's model, delicately jouthful, de liciouslv lovelv, jet soulless, ignorant, innocent, n beautiful farce in a man's life anil a tragedv in her own, and the woman who won, the Ann Whitfield to his John Tanner, nn upstnudiiu, hund some, athletic, whole-souled American girl of the breev . outdoors, cuble-to-take-core of herself t.vpe. These char acters are aieuiutely and nnimutedlv drawn. Supplementary characters, such ns the widow with the Pl.v mouth Rock conscience, the grnnde dnme, tolerant in the best of taste, of her philandering husband's escapades; the fiieenvvich village optipiist and the painter who practices his nrt bv n time clock nro also all highlv humuubed. Amid these folk the artist works out his temperament The novel is the psjchologv of his uuusual and some what wobbling Fun! TJHJ WINGS OF DESIRE B Rita Well man New orlv Moffat 'V.urd A. C u II 1,(1 nAP4 TV f v -e- 4, Ami Lowell's New Poems PICTURES OF THE First Edition Exhausted on Publication o'rcon A'olu Prtntfuo- "The heart of the volume is a garden. . . . Tlio book is as local as the 'Hcspeiides,' and as deeply pervaded by the spell of the genius of a place. . . . The beauty that knocks at the gates of the senses lies on page after page with a clarity and an almost radiant succinct ness for which I know few parallels. . . . Surpassing and (I think) enduring beauty." 1'rofet.sor John Livingston Lowes, in The Boston Transcript. "It is a book of impressions, fleeting and delicate, yet keenly and vividly defined. . . . Heio we have imagibm at its best; a lovely gesture caught at its highest curve of grace, symbolizing a universal emotion. . . . Originality and individuality are precious quali ties, and Miss Lowell possesses them beyond any other living poet we can think of." The New York Times Book ReUevy. $1.50. Other Books by Amy Lowell Can Grande's Castle SwordrBlades and Poppy Seed tl.60 11.50 A Dome of Many-Colored Glass SI B0 "fiol line the Elizabethans hn inch a THE MACMIU.AN COMPANY MRS. PORTER'S BIRD CONFESSIONS The Popular Novelist Explains How She Became Interested in Robins and Things There is no more peislslent nnd con scientious student of birds iu Amerlcu than Mrs. Ocnc Strutton-fortcr, wide ly known ns uu author nf popular fic tion, nnd there is no more interesting writer nbout birds than she. Three vears ago Mis. Stralton-l'orter was telling mi acquaintance of some of the interesting Incidents connected with her pursuits of bird lore when it was suggested that she write a book about the subject. This she has done in "Homing With the llirds." which might be called nn ornithologist's auto biography. The book is filled with most fascinating tales about birds. As it child the nuthor was fond of birds nnd lenrned how to approach them without disturbing them on their nests She acquainted herself with everj species on her father's farm One day her father delighted her heart I) telling her that he gave her for her owrp all the birds on the farm. The little girl thereupon assumed n propn etorship which consisted mostly of a feeling of motlierlv responsibility for the safety of every fenthercd thin that flew. As she grew oldef she con tinued her study and in the rouise of time began to write about the things whith site hdd learned Her patient observation is ns remarkable ns that of ruble, the distinguished French nat tirallst. She has cotrected some of the errors of those who have gone before her nnd she lias discovered much nbout birds nnd bird wnys which no one knew before. Her volume, hovviver, is not n dry book ou ornithology It is a human and sympathetic storv of n woman's interest in birds, filled with amusing nnd pathetic auecdotes. Tor example she tells of one bird which she found blind drunk on the juice of frozen pokeberries He clung head downward on a branch nnd kept eating the berries ns long as she watched him. The story lacks nnlv its last 'tage, a description of the binl recover ing from bis spree with his head leaned against a cake of ice to cool his throb bing brow. She tells also of a silly lobin that bnilt nei nest in a leafless tiee where it was unprotected from the weather. Mrs. Htrntton-Porter saw the bird sit on the nest for nineteen con st eutive hours protecting hereggs fnnn n diiving rainstorm. The book is liberallv illustrated. The lust piituro is thnt of a domestic hen nineteen eats old, repioduced from n photograph takeu three dajs before the fowl clieel of old age. HOMING WITH THE ISIRDS Iho history or a lifetime of personal experience with thi- birds Bv Gene Htratton-Portcr Gar. don Citl 1 Doublcday, Pago . Co tl. The Beloved Stranger There is more authentic poctrv in Witter I!vnnet'n latest volume. "The Heloved Stranger." than in anything else that he has written. This is true in spite of the fact that much of it is in free verse. It might be called n love sequence, for love is tho theme of the whole nnd it is the love of which grent pnssions nre made. "Laurel." which is in conventional form, well il lustrates the temper of the whole. It i tins: 1 will not call ou beautiful again, Though my throat acho w 1th tho silence of refraining, And nnr a sich will I cxnlaill. Though my hands fill with ep!aln'ns Vor ni nro as beautiful ns a hill I know In spring, breathing with light But as soon as I told you, a chill like snow Covered and turned you white I will not call voti beautiful again, Your labvrlnthlne loveliness I will not name I will b sMent J't forgotten men Dead bejoml blame No mutter how vour alls of spring beguile Be It mv foititude, mv business, my endeavor Not to iicclnlm the laurel of vour smile rxcept today, .tomorrow unci forover' It is aunntinced that the book Is the result of n ti in t the Oiont made bv Mr. Ilvnner in V.)U) That innj be hut there was that in llvnner brfore he went to the Hast whiih made the book iiossible or the Orient could not have lit might it bilk As sheer poctrv it is oue of the must notable books which has nnneaied this year THE BEI-OVD sixRVNC.rn By mtter Bynntr New "Vorli Mfrtd V Knopf tv so urn mini-Mi !. ii in ii THERE IS NO DEATH The portal Is but a higher pnitr From the p'ane of the twentieth degree messages, authenticated nnd reported by Or A D Watson of Toronto, lucvo come to add to the sum of our Knowledge of Intel lectual and spliitual things Im personal, convincing, lemurkable THE 20TH PLANE The book has a scientific purpose nnd recounts, solely as evidence, the extraordinary recent convorsa tlons with great men of the past, including Lincoln Talne Moses, Beethoven and Plato It forms another Important link In tho chain of evidence, in proof of a life hereafter. Livery Bookseller has It J- 00 net George W. Jacobs & Co,, Publishers Men, Women and Ghosts si 50 Tendencies In Modern American Poetry. Illustrated. ! r.n Six French Poets. Illustrated. JL'.fjO usilerj of words been reacted in Entliik" Publishers NEW YORK A NEW DAVID HARUM "The Touch of Abucr" De lightful in Drollery David Hartim will be the first thought that comes to mind iu reading "Tho Touch of Abucr," by II. A. Cody. The nuthor has hitherto been known mostly for his novels of the western thrill school of tietion, but he Is ery adept nt tho bucolic nnd rural On the testimony of this novel, which has nin th? humor and a lot of sound sense ns well. It moves along at a lively clln from the moment when the titular hero subscribes a cool thousand to the or phanage fund in 11 tight, not to sny near, community. He hasn't anything like thnt much money nnd no way of getting it, but he has his nerve and hia wits. His wife does all the worry ing, nui Aoncr does the trick I This is no mere h'gosh novel at nil, nnd ns a piece of literary craftsman ' ship it has David Ilariim beaten nil over the ten-acre lot. The character!- I 7ations nro shrew dlv observed and put belicvnbly on the pnge nnd the situa tions do not strain rrerltilit) A village Hhjlock is nicely thwarted in Abner's 1 process of making good the donation for the orphanage fund and shaming tight-hstod neighbors to lend n helping hnud, Thete is n trensmo In Mm anil I of the old farm, which is discovered and preserved ns part of the plot But the humor is, after nil, the chief charm. It is infectious. And the love storv concerning Abner's girl is nlso prettily sentimental without being mushv. ihi: Tore 11 ok- Aiwrn n h a codv l"so Oeorgo Doran Company Amy Lowell's Virtuosity If Amy Lowell would use her un doubted gifts in wilting poetry after nuropean models instead nf fashioning her verse on the models of China and Japan she would be read by men nncl women who have no use for her orse now. But perhaps Miss Lowell does not care for that kind of popularity. It must be assumed that she does not or she would not persist Her latest volume, "Pictures of the Floating World." contains the verse which she has written during the last live vears that did not seem appropriate to be published either with "Men. Women nnd flhosts" or with "Can Orande's Castle " They arc iinngist pieces, thnt is, they have been w ritten in the attempt to create the impression of a picture in the mind. As such they nre bevond ciitlcism. Miss Lowell hns sutceccicd iu attempting to do what she undertook. Theie is a small group of ndmirers of the new poctrv whose members will regaid what she hns writ ten as among the greatest poems of the time. The lest of us, however, while ad miring the virtuosity of the lulllinnt Boston woman, will 1 egret thnt she did not try to do something which would appeal to a less restricted circle "h?"?!8 .OI" T,Hl: 'T-OATI.NG WOULD iy Amv Ixnvel. New York Tk. J,- mlllan Company ji ,J 8 Mac" British Naval Record the Lnglish navy took in the Into wai has been ' Prepared by Archibald Ilurd and H. 11. njshfor, The six lending battles are fully described, the Infest space being given to the important part the nav took iu the conquest of the I)ni dandles. 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