. Review of reviews and world's work . of the thatchedhouses where I have heard and gathered them. 3The Wild At Coole. By W. B. Yeats. Mac-millan. 114 pp. $ •*The Kiltartan Poetry Book. By Lady 112 pp. $ THE NEW BOOKS 557 The Gaelic construction, the Elizabethan phrasesof the rhythmic Kiltartan give the poems a hu-man quality; the old heroes are become peoplewe know or used to know, dimmed a little bydistance, haloed by memory. It is good to find among the volumes of poetrybooks where the creative impulse was strongenough to take the longer flight of narrative
. Review of reviews and world's work . of the thatchedhouses where I have heard and gathered them. 3The Wild At Coole. By W. B. Yeats. Mac-millan. 114 pp. $ •*The Kiltartan Poetry Book. By Lady 112 pp. $ THE NEW BOOKS 557 The Gaelic construction, the Elizabethan phrasesof the rhythmic Kiltartan give the poems a hu-man quality; the old heroes are become peoplewe know or used to know, dimmed a little bydistance, haloed by memory. It is good to find among the volumes of poetrybooks where the creative impulse was strongenough to take the longer flight of narrative poe-try. WhateverAmerican poetry ofthis type lacks, thereis little enough of it,and those who arecourageous enoughto enter the fieldshould be encour-aged. One asks moreof poetry than theperfect lyric, morethan entertainmentfor the moment; oneasks continuity of il-lusion, the ability tolive continuously oldlives, and many ofthem, over it is this onefinds in John G. Nei-h a r d t s narrativeJOHN G. NEIHARDT poetry. The Song. of Three Friends.* his most recent volumein the third of a cycle of poems dealing withthe fur-trade of the Trans-Missouri region in theearly twenties. It is a tale of adventure andlove founded on historical facts of the two ex-peditions of Ashley and Henry in the years 1822and 1823. Three trappers and boatmen, theiradventures, and love that turned their comrade-ship to strife and tragedy form the subject-matterof the tale. Mr. Neihardt succeeds admirablywith his characterization of the men and in therecreating of atmosphere. No true Americancould read the first two sections, Ashleys Hun-dred and The Up-Stream Men, without athrill of patriotic devotion for the land of hiabirth. Unique among the newer poets who drawtheir songs from the doings of everyday peopleis Roy Helton,^ a southern mountaineer, who hascome to Northern cities and seen our busy lifewith fresh vision. He makes verses out of al-most anything, a little cash girl in a dry goodsstore,
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