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Dumas is everywhere. No ordin- ary bookcase can contain hla works, the number of which may
GREEK ISLAND TOWNS,
A little back from the
water-
Memoirs of An Amazing an ecorded by some In-front, through strests redolent of
["On
Man.
Board "the Emma," by Alphonse Dumas, translated by R. S. Garnett; Benn, 25s.] Thackery used to shy that he read "The Count of Monte-Cristo" from sunrise to sunset. That, to gether with Dumas' other great romance, "The Three Musketeers,” i has also been the pleasure of thousands of British readers, past and present. " The genius of Dumas pere was the genius of Walter Scott, Dickens and In marked contrast to the pea- Fenimore Cooper (whom he great-sant poets are their proletarian
-R. S.
THE RUSSIAN PEASANT POETRY.
dustrious bibliographer, but can the Middle Ages, is the platia, u never be estimated by the ordin-rectangular contral square that in cry reader. We rejoice that we a Spanish country would be called can never get to the end of his the plaza. Here is the town hall, works, his or the products of the some trees, a band stand, outdoor factory over which he presided. movies, half the open space cover-. It is most right that he should be ed with tables and chairs, the rest Inexhaustable in literature as in a strolling place. Quaint corners life.
R genial Insult to "the are legion among the white hoap modesty of nature,"
of homes . the streets us aftên stairways да pavements, and plunging every little while through tunnel-like arches that are a brief but welcome relief from the glar- ing sunshine. My companion's ar- tistle and unjaundiced eye found at every turn something worth ly admired). But it was essen contemporaries, to whom the sub painting. In fact, Syra being the tially the genius of Dumas. ject of love of country seems un-Arst place to which I took him, There was a man. Rich in mother suitable and unsavoury ...At quite that he might become gradually wit as Rabelais (the prerogative, the opposite pole stand the peasant insured to the heat, I had a strug- of Frenchmen, it seems), he was poets, who are not so easily influ-gle to keep him from putting in the Good Samaritan to all who in-enced by mere words. They do not rest of his Grecian summer there. terested him, generous to the ex- talk so much of humanity, but nei- tent of folly. As he himself saya ther do they forget man; they in this delightful book of memoirs. do not aim at an international he could neither refuse nor any paradise, and they never forget nay to his friends. And his
their own country. They are na- friends were beyond enumeration. tionalists to the core, and they have It was his friends who ruined
never lacked patriotism him, time and again. When, in one of his extravagant moods, he built a mansion in the Renais- sande style, he entertained nearly all Paris there. More champagne was drunk than would fill on Eng- High nobleman's cellar In the eighteenth century, and Dumas was, as usual, the laser by thou- xands of Franes. Ils gift of writing, however, was terrife and prolific. exceeding even that of Mr. Edgar Wallace's (the com parison is irreverant) and so soon as he had contracted debts, he had repaid them.
he
Gift of Repartee.
The streets are often broad stairways walled by bright stone or mud-brick houses that might have been brought intact from the Middle Ages. The scrubbing brush and a jar of whitewash are used weekly, we were assured, on those The pensant poets still draw parts of the buildings subjected to their inspiration from the trea-finger-marks; and the streets. sures of folklore, and the harmony which are paved with whitish flag- of the past is thus preserved in stones, are frequently washed with their poetry of the present.
the little water available,
The knapsack on my shoulders will remain,
Moreover, the inhabitants still have a Venetian love of colour. Alone, I will wander among men. The calcimine or whatever is used Mother country, even the wan-on the house walls has a wide dering son loves thee.
range of hues. Along the stair- Receive me dear mother, take me ways, all the way up, are marine to thyself.
blue, rose, gray-blue, chrome yel- lows, accentuated to a stage set- The Russia that all the peasant ting in fairyland by the blazing, poets sing with such depth of feel baking sunshine which never ing is the peasants' Russia. To | falters from dawn to dark, Blue them these two words, "peasant" | and white being the national
-Artamonov.
If Dumas was a great writer, and "Russia," are synonymous, two colours of Greece, many families was even greater as a man symbols with the same meaning: are so patriotic that they paint a and a conversationalist. His wit. the dear mother country... Full broad blue band about the tops of his repartee, and his contagious of bright hopes, for under their the walls of their box-shaped bon homic electrified the dullest mother's "gray dowlas shirt" they houses, which are covered with the salons, and his personality enslav-perceive a great living force, they flat roofs. common to the Near ed in the circle of his admirers
pray for Russia with passionate de- East.. Others prefer pink or men and women of every rank of votion, and always whisper to her magenta or ochre or violet-colour- Seclety. Dumas was an enthusias- gentle and caressing words.-George Fed tops to the white walls, even tie democrat (was he not foremost 2. Patrick in "Popular Poetry in whole walls of those tints; and the in the second French revolution?) Soviet Russia." and he despised the eflete and haughty type of continentul aris- tocrat, yet among his friends he numbered many princes and Koblemen. Once in his early days he took a month's voyage to Italy with the Prince Napoléon. aon of the great world-conqueror who had slighted his grandmother,
A Creat Egoist.
ever wrote,
THE PEACE SIGN.
In pearl gray hours when dreams.
come true
An antelope band comes into
view.
...
Silvery creatures slim and shy
I hold my breath as they pass by; With tinkle of hoofs through the
golden brush
incessant sunshine seems to mel-
low the colours, so that at first sight one protests that the delicate- ly multi-coloured and apparently spotless town which rises tier upon tler up the naked mountainside, and is reflected . in the unearth- ly Egean-blue of the bay, is an impossible vision, an incredible mirage. Certainly it is a paradise for an artist in search of the colourful-Harry A. Franek, in "I
They graze awhile, then off Discover Greece."
they rush.
When upland gulches purple grow
A rhythmic herd of buffalo Streams gently downward and
"00 Board the Emma." is Dumas' own account of a trip to Greece and Italy in his private yacht. But it is more than that. It is perhaps the finest thing he if only because he was writing then about himself; for Dumas
was a great egoist. He loved his friends, and he him- self was one of his best friends. There are self-pictures in this A shaggy column, brown and slow,
away,
To cross the plain at break of
day--
I stand entranced and watch
them go.
book of one of the most loveable characters, as well as, one of the most amazing. the last century At midnight when the land is still, has produced. His extravagance Etched fine against an opal hill, was profligate, and the thrifty They come again, an Indian band will be in continual suspense in And with their pinto ponies reading this volume. for Dumas recounts again and again how he is duped by avaricious tradesmen and others; but as he never had any regard for money he was in- 'different as to its loss.
Dumas was not dependent on material resources; he carried the fantastic wealth of Monte Criste with him wherever he went. The ancedote of ancedotes about him ir that of the dull dinner party. "But were, you not dreadfully bored, dear master?". "I should have been if I had not been there," Dumas replied.
stand:
While one adorned with feathers
bright.
Makes upward gesture to the
night.
How silently they turn and go,
Peace to the lands of Arapahoe!
-Jessie Linkletter.
MID-STREAM.
Though they are shadows, and they
swim
In shadowy waters, dark and dim, Though flies are scarce, and thin
at that,
The trout of Styx are very fat. For twice (and sometimes thrice)
a day,
The latter half of this book, deal- ing with the famous Italian cam- paign of General Garibaldi (In which Dumas materially asslated) The boat of Charon goes that way, will be of great value to students. And every pausonger therein for in it ar ementioned hitherto un-Throws overboard his darling sin: | known facts.
Seeing that ghostly Custom House That looms across the misty bows.
F. H.
Cinema Star's Thirty Thousand Dollar Mithap.'
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TO-MORROW.
What can I find in my wild
orchard,
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To please your pretty eyes to-
morrow;
A kitten mewing, short and sweat, Like the chirp of a sleeping Spar-
row?
A bee as big as a little bird;
Flowers red or white, pink, blue
or yellow?
Or a bird as small as the bumble
bee
To please your pretty eyes to
morrow?
-W. H. Davies.
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