Candles That Burn, by Aline Kilmer. George H. Doran. $1.25. To Helen who had written, "Have you seen Aline Kilmer's new book of poems? They are charming!" I hesitate to tell you, Helen dear! Why should I cloud your youthful eyes with fear? The poems that you wrote of, I have read,— So many are about a child that's dead. "Candles that burn”—a very pretty torch- But ah! the flame one's very heart doth scorch! Now-in a world that but in dreams is mine. You called them "charming," to a heart unscarred Mary Newberry. Songs of Many Moods, by Robert T. Duncan. Gorham Press. $1.00. Mr. Duncan is already well known to many of our readers, and this little collection has been anticipated with pleasure by many of his personal friends. Many of the songs are in Scotch dialect. We shall quote the concluding stanza of "Signs of Spring:" "It winna jist be very lang Afore we hear the lintie's sang While in the summer nichts we'll gang The bonnie wids and howes." Olde Wisconse, by Arthur Leismann. Privately printed. $1.00. This little collection of poems is very attractively bound as a gift book. The verses are written by a deaf young man who certainly deserves all the encouragement we can give him. We shall let the first stanza of one of his poems speak for him. "If to the sound of things my ears are closed, And to me music's soulful charm is lost, I shall not like the moaning breezes be, But thank my stars that I have eyes to see." LIFE'S MINSTREL. C. C. P. By Daniel Henderson. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, $1.50. It is not the poet's thought-it is his song that takes its easy way through the world's heart; not some juggled glory of construction, but his nature broken into song as the wind sings or the water croons by its own sweet impulse that is his best authority. In Mr. Henderson's Life's Minstrel, although he has not taken this silver path of song he has largely atoned by the sincere and lofty expression of a fine soul. In this assemblage of widely current magazine verse he offers a charming passport to popular favor. With almost photographic fidelity to detail his pictures stand out in their own living light stenciled sharp by truth. Severe in their simplicity as the Greek models of old, his lines, with some notable exceptions, run to the exquisite in sculpture rather than the ethereal in design or the emotional in color. Here is the twinkle of a blue diamond: "Yet the Dreamer again has won Up, and follow his path to the sun!" Under Guns and Plowshares sincere and feeling tributes to our soldiers make their own appeal: "....Our hearts salute The soul of the race in you!" The Road to France, a prize war poem, and the Flag of Man, are full of poetic fire. His whimseys are as delightful as a sweet touch can make them; his Lighter Chords most daintily done, with Marshal Bluebird and Lost Bazaars as special instances. The following is representative of his serious side: "Ripe and waiting hung the fruit upon life's crowded limb: Death came walking where the branches swayed and bent to him! Death came seeking-but he left the mellow fruit to rust, And he plucked the tenderest buds and flung them to the dust! -Mary Leedy Flanigan. From the March issue of The Touchstone, The Soldier to a Dead Comrade Amy Lowell, Mary Caroline Davies, Margeretta Scott Charles Hanson Towne, Grace Hazard Conkling HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE TOUCHSTONE and The American Art Student MAGAZINE Conceded to be the Most Sumptuously Beautiful Magazine in America THE LYCEUM WORLD 900 Lakeview Ave., Detroit, Mich. The Absolutely Independent Lyceum Magazine. Instruction-Entertainment-Inspiration. 15 Cents per copy. $1.00 a year. No Free Samples. ITS FIELD: 10,000 Lyceum Workers; 3,000 Lecture-Courses; 15,000 Chautauquas; 18,000,000 patrons. ITS PURPOSE: To promote the highest type of popular instruction and entertainment along moral lines through Lecture Courses and Chautauqua Assemblies. PUBLISHED FOR: Lecturers' Bureaus, Entertainers, Committees, Chautauquas, Managers, the Interested Audiences and all who want Reading Worth While. THE LYCEUM WORLD is recognized as one of the finest, brightest and best magazines published. It brings brilliant lectures, original platform readings, literary discussions and valuable articles on successful platform work by Speakers, Readers, Musicians and Entertainers, who receive from $50.00 to $1,000 a day in this work, and travel all over the United States and Canada and in foreign countries. THE EDITOR is a successful writer, lecturer and author, of over 20 years' experience in this field. If you wish to do lyceum work, write him personally when you send your subscription, and state your qualifications. Positions found for talented people. Tell him what you can do. Advertising in THE LYCEUM WORLD circulates. Name Address Enter above name as a subscriber at $1.00 per year. Also send me information about.. |