* _Saloon Sonnets: With Sunday Flutings. By Allen Norton._
(Claire-Marie: $1.25 net.) A volume less bizarre than its title implies.
The sonnets bear evidence of _ueberkultur_, but occasionally surprise
the reader by their pleasant lyric charm. They do not lack virility and
enthusiasm.
_The Sister of the Wind. By Grace Fallow Norton._ (Houghton-Mifflin:
$1.00 net.) A new volume by the author of _Little Gray Songs from St.
Joseph’s_ which is most disappointing. In a poet of Miss Norton’s
quality, it is inevitable that there should be always something to repay
the reader, but this volume is singularly unrepresentative of Miss
Norton’s real powers.
_Celtic Memories. By Norreys Jephson O’Conor._ (Lane: $1.00 net.) A
first volume of some promise by a recent graduate of Harvard, whose
Irish feeling is drawn directly from experience, but whose expression is
still drawn chiefly from books.
* _The Ebon Muse and Other Poems by Léon Laviaux. Englished by John
Myers O’Hara._ (Smith and Sale: $2.00 net.) Translations from the work
of a young Creole poet, glorifying the “fille de couleur” in love poetry
of original beauty. Differing from Latin and Oriental passion alike, it
reveals a type of feminine beauty which is wholly new to Northern
readers.
* _An Epilogue To the Praise of Angus and Other Poems. By Seumas
O’Sullivan._ (Norman, Remington Co.: $.75 net.) A thin sheaf of delicate
poems by one of the foremost poets of the New Ireland. Akin in certain
aspects of his vision to “Æ,” who does not surpass him, his verses have
more singing quality, and he is a successful experimenter in various new
verse forms which reproduce cadences in ancient Irish music.
* _One Woman to Another, and Other Poems. By Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson._ (Scribner: $1.25 net.) Dramatic monologues and sonnets of
sharply etched lines whose competence is unquestionable, and a more
satisfying reality of human feeling than in Mrs. Robinson’s previous
volume. The volume will give much intellectual and some emotional
pleasure, and in two or three lyrics the poet has achieved high ground.
* _Beyond the Breakers, and other Poems. By George Sterling._
(Robertson: $1.25 net.) This is Mr. Sterling’s first thoroughly
satisfying book. It includes the superb “Ode on the Centenary of the
Birth of Robert Browning,” and poems of such importance as “Tidal, King
of Nations,” “Willy Pitcher,” “The Mission Swallows,” “Past the Panes,”
and “You Never Can Tell.” We must call particular attention to the
vision of the noble ode entitled “Beyond the Sunset.” With less opulent
diction and heady imagination than Mr. Sterling’s earlier volumes,
_Beyond the Breakers_ shows a disciplined vision expressed with a
disciplined technique.
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