Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1924, Page 10

H ‘ ” 1 4 Se ee a ee eres x h PRO I POSE PACY TEN By TED OLSO) Prairie Wolf. North of the house there was a grav- | Frank eled range of hills, Stubborn and bare with clinging grey dry grass, Where, resting sometimes through her vacant days, she watched The far swift shadows of the coy- otes pass. Bhe told herself her life was like | 1 those stony hills, Unfertile, bitter in the blaze of noon, Where fearful yellow shapes slipped by uncertainly And wailed for sorrow underneath the moon. Gwendolen Haste in the Lyric West eee Eo 1582 The life of the west, traditionally, at least, has been virile and robust, dyed with the scarlet of romance and adventure, rich in the material of which epics are made. It is no won- der “then, that such prophets as Vachel Lindsay have looked to the Rockies for a fertile poetic renats- sance, which might eventually swing the literary center of gravity from Manhattan or Chicago to the thin- ner, purer atmosphere of the trans- Mississipp! hinterland. There have been plenty of versi- fiers who have stugg'ed valiantly to meet this challenge. And winnow- ing out the cruder, more obvious balladry consisting largely of cheap imitation of Robert W. Service him- self an imitator of Kipling, there begins to emerge an occasional vol- ume that is at once authentic poetry years of hig youth on an Arizsonza ranch, where he first began to ex- periment in verse. He is a real poet, too, with the rare gift of never seem- ing to lack for the individual, inevit- able phrase. Witness this picture of the return of Boastful Bill, who sal- Ned forth to tame the meteors when earthly outlaws proved too easily “Stardust op his chaps and saddle, Ushed four volumes of verse, though he owes his widest recognition to such novels of the violent south- West as “Overland Red,” and “The Rigin’, Kid from Powder. River.” He relies ymore heavily than Clark on the conventional situations of melo- drama, and at times seems to de rive something from service, -but there is much that is worth reading in his books. The first, ‘Songs of the Outlands,” is probably the best of the quartette. £ Frank B. Linderman, ai “Bunch Grass and Bou i bines politics and poetry. He was the unsuccessful Republican “carididate for senator’ from Montana in the election last month. Elliott C. Lin- coln,- who «writes “Rhymes of a Homesteafer," is another Montanan. So is "Gwendolen Haste, who has written with ‘power and restraint of the drab. and often tragic lives of homesteader and ranchwomen. She has yet to publish a volume, though she.won ‘the! nation’s poetry prize three years ago and contributes reg- ularly to the magazines. ‘The’ most ambitious attempt yet made to capitalize western history is that of John G. Nejhardt, Nebraska laureate, in “The Song of Hugh Gass,” and “The Song of ‘the Three Friends,” which are to be the first two installments of a western epic. Nethardt uses the early explorations as the background for two stirring, swift-moving ‘stories, he errs in try- Ing to tell his stalwart pioneer Odys- sey in the classic phraseology and imagery of Pope or, Dryden. Had he fitted style to subject more succers- fully he might conceivably have All druggists sel] these medicines | written the first real American of Dr. Pierce's in tablets or liquid.| epic. © Send 10 cents to Dr. Pierce, Pres. te ales Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., for ‘Two British novelists, both artists of any of his medicines. | {in prose, both mystics who have ex- Mrs. G. W. Little Are You in Need ofa Tonic? Health is Wealth. You cannot Afford te Overlook s Word of this Letter. 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Trafton, aged 90 and 82, who are celebrating thelr 66th wedding an- niversary. The Traftons both came across —in the same year, 1852—but did not meet until several months la- ter. “We've been together constantly since 1858," Trafton tells, “and can offer no better advice that that about the Golden Rule. I can’t see how any two could ever be happy Without following it, and it certain- ly 1s easy enough.” | and toyed with the cryptic and su- pernatural, tell something of their lives in ‘Episodes before Thirty,” by Algernon Blackwood, (Dutton) and “Things Near and Far,” by Arthur Machen, (Knopf). It is hard to recognize the Black- wood who has written so well of the border-world of fantasy in this matter of fact narrative of a stal- wart young Briton’s struggles to earn a livelihood in a strange conti- nent. Disastrous ventures in dairy- ing and in saloon-keeping in Canada, @ not over-succersful apprenticeship a reporter in New York—these are related in a mildly inieresting fashion and make up the bulk of a disappointing bock. Why hag Black- wood ‘deliberately suppressed men- tion of the experiments in the supe! natural which he was already mak- img? It is just such revelations the reader expects to find, micsing them, he sees little fascination in a narra. tive of vagabond adventure which any of a thousand young men might match. Machen, fortunately, fs not so re- ticent. He devctes much of the Jatter half of his volume. to, the account of his| mystica: visitations; a chronicle which is fascinating if perplexing. He writes with sympathetic insight and in a etyle of poignant beauty of the drab, wretched London in which he spent a miserable and impecun- fous youth, One wonders, though, if he too is nok suppressing a rich area of his ex- It is hardly credible that uid lve to the age’ of ntouched by emotion: stories of bo wood are milits nine chara —and reseut sistent with the and frank reve! empty of fem! he reader necrship incon- se of a full Ever since the F'u-Manchu stories first began appearing in ° Col jer's many years ago, many of us have nourished a surreptitious fondness for Sax Rohmer's creepy romances of “Oriental terror and mystery, Those who have tested-a go flesh. ly delight in “The Yellow Claw” and its successors will welcome the Page announcement of a new Rohmer’ yarn packed as full as the rest with crime and conspiracy, thrills and~ horror. Four other nove-s of adventure, al} staged in the great and more or less open spaces of the Rockies and Can- ada are “The Devonshers,” by Hon- ore Willsie Morrow (Stokes) which {s set in our own Wyoming; “The Valley of the Voices," by George Marsh (Penn). a tale of the Hudson Bay region, and, we suspect, of the familiar mounted police; Harry’ St: clair Drago's ‘Following the Grass,’ (Macauley) ry of the days before the railroad and James Fellom's “Rider of the Mohave." see Alfred A. Knopf, win his usual commendable prevision, issued some six weeks ago a novel entitled “Au. tumn," translated from the Polish of Ladislas Reymont, and announced as the first volume of a mammoth four-volume work called “The Peas- ants." Just one month later word came from Stockholm that Reymont had been awarded the Nobel’ litera- ture prize for 1925— and Mr. Knopt smiled and prepared for a prosper. ous winter. 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