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"Contains as line an assort
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McAroni
BALLADS
By T. A. DALY
$1.50 Net
Tom "Daly's gift in dialect,
especially Italian and Irish,
needs no comment. But this
talent, however charming,
must not obscure his finer
credit as a poet of English
undefiled. Here is the genu
ine tradition of Burns, Cal
verley and Dobson, of
Holmes, Riley and Field."
Christopher Morley.
Wo have taken over Mr.
Daly's earlier books : Madri
gali, Carmina, Canzoni.
Each $1.50 net
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AIICIIIRALD MAKSIIAM.I AND KATIIMCEN NOnillS
AVIio.se new not els aroittractlns attention
ROMAIN HOLLAND'S
ROMANTIC HERO
A Burgimdiaa IFood Carver
Who Is a Sort of Rural
Benvenuto Cellini
Rotnain IJolland, who won fame by
liis "Jcan-Chrlstophc" trilopy, relaxed
himself after it as completed by writ
ing n Eurguudian talo of tlio curly
seventeenth century. It was finished
and in type when the war began. Its
publication, however, vns postponed
until the present season, lie calls it
"Colas Hicngnnti, liiirgnndian." Colas
being an abbreviation of Nicholas.
The hero, uho is fifty jcats old when
the tnlp opens, is u sort of u rural
Iienvcuiito Celliui, n woodenner aud
sculptor who does his own thinking,
who is not afraid of a light, who was
lusty in his youth nnd has not Inst his
udmiration for a pretty face aud a well
turned auKle. He is made to tell what
happened to him for about a jenr en
livened with reminiscences of his joutli.
lie suffers beieaveiueut through the
dentil of liis wife, he comes near dying
of the plague, his house is burned down
by the citizens to get rid of the plague
infected dwellings, nnd he leads n com
pany of liaid-headed men who are loot-
ing and robbing while other housoh nre l
burned. When he tries to rebuild his
house so that he may not be com
pelled to live ou the bounty of his
children he breaks his leg und is forced
to submit to the care of his daughter.
The story is interesting, not so much
for what happens as for the disclosure
of the iutciifely huniuu personality of
it seventeenth century Itui-gundiau who
fears neither priest nor king und lmR
his joke with every one. H is a novel
for thoughtful men. They will find much
in Colas that touches a chord in their
own being aud makes it sing. The optimist.-,
among them will agree with him
when ho says: '"In my world every
thing is in its place: Ciod in His hea
ven, the saints in their chapels, out of
doors the fairies, und my good brains
in my head, so it all works smoothly,
to each his proper task with uo des
potic king to rule over us."
cor.AH niiKuaxo.v. Ily nomnin nolinnd.
Translated Ijv leathering -Miller. New
York. Henry Holt & Co. 11 75.
A HEROINE OF
SUBLIME SACRIFICE
Kathleen Norris Develops Un
usual Situation in
New Novel
NEW ENGLAND
Miss Henderson Has Written
of Her Loiterings There
;
As though the New Knglauders did
not exploit their part of the world
enough, Helen AV. Henderson, a I'hiln-,
dclphian, has turned her facile pen to
the subject. She lias produced in "A
Loiterers in New England" a book
which every New Knglunder will find
most entertaining. It does not com
pare with her "Loiterer in New York,"
which was one of the best descriptions
of fTiat city produced by any one, but
yet it is very much worth while.
Miss Henderson confines her loitering
to Cape Cod, Plymouth, lloston nnd
Salem, but, she finds enough there to
fill a volume of nearly 4G0 puges. If
one chose to be hypercritical one might
say that bhe ,had padded it out with a
rewriting of much ancient history, but
n book about eastern Massachusetts
without uucieut history would fuil to
satisfy any one. AVo want the old
story of the Pilgrim fathers retold. It
must be confessed that Miss Henderson
tells it most gracefully, bhe even goes
as far afield ns Turkey to get the story
about Captain John Smith and the
Turks' heads. According to her. the
fighting between nn English and Turk
ish army wus stopped iu order thut
tho troops might be entertained by a
combat between a chosen Turkish and
Hritlsh warrior. The victor was to
have the head of the vanquished. Cap
tain (Smith was chosen to represent the
llritish. He got the head of the Turk,
aud in two succeeding combats, ar
ranged as sequels to the first, iio got
iwo more uenus. vvnun ne explored
tho New England coast lie named n
group of islands the Turks Heads,
after his memorable- conduit.
'I he Btory of Sulcm is retold with
much informed cpmmeut on the urchl-
tecturo of the old town, and Miss Hen
derson also eclebrr.tes tho glories of
ISulllmeli, tlie architect of Uio state
liouso in Boston, aud regrets the ob.
sctiring of the famous front by tho mod
ern wings, which havo been added to
the original structure. AVhile the hook
will entertain New Englaudcrs, it will
also iutercst those so fortunate us to
live in other parts of the country where
history wns also made, and where archl
tects and paiuters have produced mas
terpieces. A IXMTKriEU IN NRff KNOI.AND. Hv
Helen W. Jfendereon. Now Tork: George
U. Poran Co.
How a Poet Makes Poetry
John Hall Whcclock, whose new book
"Dust and Light" (Scribners) has been
called the most significant poetry of tho
year, was asked why he never wrote
down a poem until lie had completely
composed and polUhed it In his mind.
Mr. AVheelock explained that the poet
lu writing a good poem must go back
over it several hundred times revising
and changing, and that when tho noem
was written down the poet's flexibility
was hampered, as the lines he had writ
ten became stamped in his mind by see
ing then) ,ia.fc4 iprra , ,
Kathleen Norris has nn excellent
book in "Sisters" nnd a splendid hero
ine in Allx Stricklnud, a vivid nnd vital
girl who rises to heights of self-sacrifice
so lofty that, though we ull wish
such u woman might be, we neverthe
less have our doubts about it.
"Sisters" is perhaps the most
tensely emotional of any of the books
this talented writer has produced. As
in her other stories, it is a tale of the
West, which Miss Norris writes about
us though she luted it, nnd this she
doubtless does. '
The outstanding figures in this most
enthralling book, which one puts down
with it feeling of regret, are Allx
Strickland, her butterfly sister Cherry,
Peter Joyce and Martin Lloyd.
Against the better Judgment of her
delightful old father, who. his wife
having died, does his pathetic best to
be u father und mother iu one. Cherry
marries Martin Llo.td in a gust of thut
impetuous und unreasoning love which
comes in the teens.
Hut the crudity of her life in a min
ing camp, where Lloyd's profession
takes them, nnd Lloyd's matter-of-fact
treatment of this nung wife of his,
open a gradually widening gap between
them, and Cherry drifts back to the
love and peaceful sheltor of her father's
home.
There, for the first time, she real
izes the charm of Peter .lojce, n friend
of the family whom she has known
since her infancy, and she learns, ulso,
that Peter Joyce loved her. Put that
was earlier, and Peter is now the hus
band of Alix, Cherry's sister. Never
theless, though devoted to the gener
ous woman who is his wife, Peter
fulls in love all over iiguiu with the
exquisite, spoiled little Cherry, and love
flumes high in her heart for him.
This is the situation which Alix
discovers when Martin Lloyd comes
back from the exile in which his wife
had left him, to renew his claims upon
Cherry. Aud it was then that Alix
found the way out that wus so tub
limely sclf-sacrilicing that it seems unreal.
SISTnrtS. Ily Kathleen- Norris. New York:
i-iouuieuay, 1'agj i uo. iJ.UU.
McARONI BALLADS
A New Book of Charming
Verse by Tom Daly
The extraordinary wealth of Tom
Daly's lyric gift has never been more
charmingly exhibited than in his new
book, "McAroni Ballads." As his
tille cleverly intimates, the book is'
tiotn Jrisli und Knliuu in flavor; but
it also contains somn of the nocms on
which Mr. Dalj's finest reputation is
oasen. in urnislit Kugiixii. in the old
French verse forms of ballade und ron
deau Mr. Daly is unexcelled, and ho
fills these crystal molds with entrancing
wit und fnncj. AVhether in dialect or
English undefiled, whether iu a mood
of gajety or in the dcener measures of
the poet's heart, Mr. Daly's skill nnd
grace never desert him. He is of
tho native fiber of Itobbic liurns, a
singer of original und irresistible en
chantment. In perplexing days and iu
u time when the well of thu Mtises is
often muddied by tho dabbling of clumsy
und graceless hands, it is u true de
light to return to Mr. Daly's gift of
lusting pleasure.
The composition of diulect poems is u
dangerous thing for n poet of Mr.
Daly's power, for it is so easy to be
come known to the public as u writer
of dialect verses alone. Also the un
critical reader is apt to imagine that
poems of this sort arc In some way
easier to write than the customary
forms. Mr. Daly has happily escaped
this superficial judgment, and we arc
glad to find in this new book n number
of poems and particularly the splen
did Lincoln fancy, "Tho Second Com
ing" which arc of the noblest aud
mont stirring tradition. In his dialect
pieces, which nre deceivingly simple
iu appearance, his cunning is unvary
ing, and his genius for insinuating
pathos aud humor in the very'simplcst
themes is unsurpassed by any American
poet. It is good news, indeed, to hcur
thut a unifotm edition of his six vol
umes is soon to be issued by u New
York publisher, and no lover ot Tom
Daly's muse will rest content until ho
has them corapleto in this new format.
Herbert Pulllugcr has contributed a
charming etching ns a frontispiece for
McAroni Ballads, a picture of ltublcara
Hoad in Gerrannlown. where Mr, Daly
houses quite u number of litres and
peuntes. Philadelphiang nre said to be
unappreciative of genius that lives in
their midst: wo think thnt on the
Christinas book counters the sals of
McAroni Ballads will refute this libel I
McAUONI BALLADS. By ,T. A. Daly.
Frontlpleco by Herbert TulllnBer. New
Tork: llaroourt. ilto & Howe. 11.60.
Morley Chained to a Post
Out in the public library of Detroit,
they have just fitted up a room with
'all thn volumes mentioned iu Christo
pher Morlcy's latest novel, "The
Haunted Bookshop." For circulation
purposes, In an effort to keep up with
growing demands, the Detroit ilbrary
has just added twenty more copies of
"The Haunted Bookshop" to its supply,
while In its reference room one copy is
kept chained to a post, where it may
ulways be' available for-coMultatiou.
EVIDENCE THAT
POETS MUST BE BORN
Dickey's Story of Riley's
Youth Shows How Genius
Finds Itself
If In tho middle seventies of tho last
century any one hnd said Hint n young
man or central Indiana, who was trav
eling about the country singing songs
and painting slgus for it pnlcut medi
cine vender, with never enough money
to keep himself out of rags, would in
1S93 stand on the platform nt the Co
lumbian Fair in Chlcngo and share
honors with President Harrison ns one
of the distinguished men of the state,
be would have been Inughed ntj and if
any one hnd prophesied that n 400-puge
book would be written nbout the cxpcrl
ences of this vouug man as an itinerant
vender no one would havo taken the
pains to contradict him. The wholo
Idea was preposterous. But you never
can tell.
.,T,'!CS0 things happened and James
Wnftcomb Itilcy is now admitted to be
one of the most human and musical
poets that America has produced. He
was the obscurest of the obscure iu
lSio and in 1800 bo was famous. Ho
wns honored nt the Chicugo Fair,
along with President Hnrrisou in 18D3.
and this full Marcus Dickey bus piTb
llshctl the story of his youth in a vol
ume containing more than -100 pages and
illustrated with numerous portruits nnd
scenes in the lire of the mun. Mr.
Dickey is a hero-worshiper and Uiley is
his hero. As so many other people agree
with him, his point of view is pardon
able, even if nt times it is n little too
unsophisticated ffnd suggests tho village
gossip praising n man who has gone to
a Inrgcr town nnd won fame "in his
chosen profession."
Tho book, however, is an imnortnnt:
contribution to literary history, for it
shows tho beginnings of n poet nnd out
ot wuat apparently unpromising soil
genius springs. The rhyming instinct
was born in Itllev. for he was do.
sceuded on his mother's side from a long
iiuc ot verse makers, ins tamer, born
in Bedford, iu this state, wits a lawyer
noted as one of the most brilliant ora
tors in Indiana. The father tried to
make a lawjer out of the boy, but
failed. He was good for nothing at any
thing save nt lininlinir slims, tilavini? thn
violin, singing popular songs and play
ing tne comic fool; that is, until lie
found himself, when ho began seriouslv
to write verse. Mr. Dicker tells the
story of his pathetic attempt to prove
that ho could write poetry by pro
ducing something in imitation of Poe
and palming it off on nn unsuspecting
puuiic, iiiroiign tne collusion ot n group
of friends, as n hitherto unknown poem
of that gifted man. Mr. Dickey's ver
sion differs in many particulars from
that which hus gaiued currency, but it
must be accepted as the true story.
Tlin YOUTH OK JAMKS WHITCOMH
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Iratlonp painted under tlie itoet'a direction
bv Will Vawler and re-produitlons from
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hxj OliVe Beaupre Miller
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f lcrvVers eod fairxjlecrvd
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A DAMSEL
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By Peluam Grenvillc Workhouse
Author of
ONEASY MONEY, SOMJCTHING NEW.
etc
Fleeing from' an irate and dis
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was a young man ready to do
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The Story of a Story .
"Slippy McGee"
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the manuscript of a novel by a Southern woman
virtually unknown to tho reading public. It
was "Slippy McGee" by Marie Conway Oemler.
Wo published "Slippy McGeo" in March,
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ently its publisher finds that this book which
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"A Woman Named Smith." tho. blest norel by tho author of "Slippy
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dozen In number. Not one of them hua been a better pleco of vok'k
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