The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1899, Page 30

80 THE SUNDAY CALL, REVIEWED BY PROF HB LATHROP STANFORD UNIVERSITY Maynard & . #0 tragic and so b e are sustained 1 us Amer! xpected, the 1 " 2 wn poems by Bret TE1 L November! can it be, is summer dead ? And are its roses all awithered ? I knew the flowers not, for sorrow bound rege of man- It is t 4 material hich Mr. Hall look i e end of all Eatechie Sk all hun:u:‘ Me in its cruel toils, and naught 1 found florts. It is & spiritual regeneration, | #hall love each other and be en competition shall be at an | seselfish .mbitions are at anend, aven shall be upon earth because &l manikind shall heve reached & Within the precincts of my exile drear But martyr’ 18¥anpax oneliness and martyr’s tear. 1 are to be bettered, | n based on eated o., just edited ha Poetry or,”" by which H an P gatlon rheto- Boston; a book of Amer ts me vetry £g — Holmes and Lowell ana C. G. Leland and J. W. Riley and Paul Dunbar. Some names. lke ti on and Sill surprise us by Mr Paget has fortunately n his inter- pretation of the word himor as applied to poetry; and by introduci poems which or whch say are gentl serfous thi . avolded the which usually bumorous fons, indeed ight to be; Galisman. Poem by Hda L. HKalstead, finds consol even larger proportion of unfamiliar | ' created by the Philippine policy of the ad poems. (L. C. Page & Co., Boston, §1 00.) | miniatration. There is of course much dif terence of opinion s to the justice of the views'held by Mr. Swift. The author of this review unhesitatingly procl self -that derided and obsolete anti-expansionist. Bt without a word of indi Lewis C. B(rln! = 'annu! Actresses of | the Day In Amerfca” is accurately de- | scribed by its title. It contains aecounts | of thirty-one wel. nown actresses now on the boards, giving a brief blography of | each one, Including her stage experience, tlon Mr. Swift's outrage with a eritical description of the art of g Comanche.” s each. The book contains many port If-monke are Mr. Strang shows a ¢ Swift's ve ry. Th onverts no o r a good deal of 1 which_ it brings s nor 1 useful informat' - about the actresses of | agree w b 1 the day. (L. C. Page & Co., Boston.) men hav + S AN work of v re Morrison I mperialism and of General Ander: ation y Is there for calling Dr. § . possible dire. L tending cate’ Swif . to the Phil s himselt A n of imperialism as ir ¢ 1 by be w | maintaty can sovereig .treacherous breach of fal the danger to freedom ar g2 volved in military methe kb on the dc—oralization 2 but many are satiric. and some are nght-| war: he declares that the Ses The author complains that | the present war is the greed . publishers have been ‘‘conserva- | He attacks the press for using expar The Leglon in permitt » of poems of | as a newspaper scoop: he blames the . v hol ght, so that | erals for sacrificing the h inter. i s very little of the work of Saxe. Fleld or | of thelr country to personal ambition; he rited pas is Included in the collection. He | condemns the War Department as a seat ols of the ation fn reflecting that If he | of corruption and a magazine of Hes, ar el 6 compiiation representa. | he assalls the President as the hypocriti- strengthen’ the legitimate interest of the » by printing Jess fa- | cal tool, agent, defender, abettor, eause pogyty "L or b SRS AN T T the ones excluded. The and promoter of the fraud, tyranny, .. A eTh - velous sword play (The Bowen-Merrill s ¥ reasonable one and | slaughter, anarchy and corruption which z ; " Company, Indianapolis.) readers prefe: perhaps an | he asserts to have been connected with or rician = < ol e Books Recelved “Bohemian Paris of To-day,” Morrow and Edouard Cucu pincott Company, Philade “The Poor Plutocr: translated by R. “Kn! t Conrad of Jultug Ludovici. Rand Chicago. $1 50. | “A Revolutionary Maid,” by Blanchard. W. A ton. $1 0. ““The Golden Tallsman,” by H. Ph Whitmarsh. W. A. Wilde Company, Bos Rheinstein,” by MoNally & Co., Amy B Wilde Company, Bos Against my wirdow lattice 1 behold A star-shaped blesscm with a heart of gold. ton. $1 50. . 'y o “Our Fox t H . b H. H. Lusk Softly it glows upon its clambering vine Doubleday & MoClure Cempaay, New J’ $ York. $1 2 ““The Hu Intereat,” by Violet Hunt And in my loneliness I call it “mine,” H. 8. Stone & Co., Chicago. 31 @. “To London Town by Ar . . rison. H. 8. Stone & Co., Chicag 81 80 For, oh, it seems a hopeful prophecy— “The Shadow of Quoris Lung,” by Dr C. W. Doyle B. Lippincott Com Philadelphia. “Behind the Vel Brown & Co., Boston. 75 Josephine,” b That sol tary passion=flower to me ! “The Perils of y L. E Hamilton. H. 8. Stone & Co., Chicago. 31 50. Europe,” b S s York. $2 Barbara's Heritage,” by Deristhe Hoyt. W. A. Wilde Comj 3 Mortime A p ‘ “Romance of kK M Louise F. P. Ham Ra A & Co., Chicago e QUEER CASES OF VESSELS THAT VANISH It seems passing strang nsidering the enorm ried “ " ad The autumn day is done, the sky is kissed hed ¢ . With sunset dyes of rose and amethyst; f)‘:.i ; Eng Still from their cloisters in the cedar trees *;" sha ; . Float to my ears the birds’ low psalmodies. :'x'\"‘;'-;'}:,h‘ffi;,:' and L And I am trusting, as in the sweet hour | mesi sovabict it 7 iedd meet. But she was never ken and never heard of again, and although fft seven years have passed,no one yet knows tow I wear my talisman, the passion-flower, hat dire calamily het ead Was dua.