Dartmouth Lyrics
By RICHARD HOVEY 'B5. Edited by Edwin Osgood Grover '94. Small Maynard & Cos., Boston.
Dartmouth men everywhere should be grateful to Mr. Grover for bringing together in an attractive, compact volume, Richard Hovey's Dartmouth poems. As the foreword states, Hovey was "Dartmouth's Laureate—the great interpreter of the Dartmouth Spirit." Hovey's "Men of Dartmouth" (called by literary critics the finest college song in existence), "The Hanover Winter Song" and"Eleazar Wheelock" are well known to Dartmouth men, but there are many less familiar poems of his which should be better known. Two of his most beautiful poems are "Comrades," a poem read at the sixtieth annual convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity in Dartmouth, May 18, 1893, and "Spring," read at the sixty-third annual convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity at the University of Michigan, May 7, 1896. This second poem contains the famous "Stein Song," which has been voted the most popular college song in America. The poem "Comrades" is more local in character with its lines "Again among the hills ! The shaggy hills! The clear arousing air comes like a call Of bugle notes across the pines, and thrills My heart as if a hero had just spoken." as well as its line Far off, Ascutney smiles as one at peace."
These two poems are as beautiful and as enduring as any that Hovey wrote. This volume contains also the best of Hovey's poems contributed while an undergraduate to The Dartmouth" and later poems contributed to the Dartmouth Literary Monthly." Many of these poems are printed for the first time in book form. Hovey during his undergraduate course was one of the editors of "The artmouth' during his Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years. In addition to the poems of o'v e-v, the volume contains a brief autobiographical sketch by him which was prepared for Mr. Grover while he was an undergraduate. This he issued in part in the "Dartmouth Literary Monthly," in an article entitled "Dartmouth's Laureate." This sketch, although not written for publication, is printed in this volume in its original form. Of value also are the seven pages of historical notes prepared by Mr. Grover, relating to the various poems. All in all the book is a most valuable contribution to Dartmouth literature and one that every Dartmouth man will want to see on his shelves.
Leigh Rogers 'l6, is the author of "Wine of Fury." This first novel of Mr. Rogers has recently been published in England, and will be brought out shortly in this country by Alfred Knopf. The Westminster Gazette describes it as "a remarkable and important novel." The London Mercury states that it is "a genuine discovery."
Harpers have just published "Filibuster" by Gordon Hall Gerould, '99. The PublishersWeekly describes this as "an exciting story for boys, telling of the part played by a young American lad in the Cuban's revolution against the Spaniards."
Volume one, number one of "Progressive Education, a Quarterly Review of the Newer Tendencies in Education," makes its appearance with the April issue. The editorial paragraphs of this number are by Stanwood Cobb, 'O3, who is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Progressive Education Association, under whose auspices this magazine will be published.
"The Radio Broadcasting Situation" by H. B. Thayer, '79, may be found in the April issue of the Bell Telephone Quarterly.
"The Effect of Storage of Livers on the Vitamine Potency of Cod-Liver Oil" by Arthur D. Holmes 'O6 appears as number six in his "Studies of the Vitamine Potency of Cod-Liver Oil." This article has been reprinted from the March, 1924 issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
C. A. Dinsmore 'B4 is the author of "Religious Certitude in an Age of Science" published by the University of North Carolina Press.
The Granite Monthly for April, 1924 contains an article by Henry Bailey Stevens 'l2, entitled "The Farmer's Cooperative Movement."
"Men About Town," fifty-eight caricatures by Gene Markey 'lB, has been published by the Covici-McGee Publishing Company of Chicago. This is the second volume of caricatures by Mr. Markey that has been published within the last two years. This volume and the first volume of Mr. Markey's caricatures have been received with a great deal of success. Ben Hecht in the Chicago Literary Times says of his work: "Mr. Markey's informal conceptions of celebrities are rapidly turning this fastidious gentleman into a classic. The casualness of his drawings and the distorted fidelity of their portraiture are more and more beginning to offer an amusing pictorial history of the great American physog under the influence of the spotlight." Keith Preston, of the Chicago Daily News, says: "Like all good parody, Mr. Markey's caricatures have real critical quality. In fact they might well be prescribed as an introduction to current criticism. The Nation in a review of his works says : "Mr. Markey's ideas are several degrees more biting than his draughtsmanship. Such books are, however, to be currently welcomed." Mr. Jones, of the Chicago livening Post writes enthusiastically of his work, "With economy of line Mr. Markey has pinned down not only a number of literary portraits but a great deal of the sort of literary criticism which one might think would need words for its setting forth."
George B. Watts 'l3, is the author of the following articles, published recently. "An Epigram Erroneously Ascribed to Voltaire," Modern Language Notes} February, 1923; "Voltaire's Change of Name," Modern Language Notes, June, 1923; "Francois Gacon and His Enemies," Philological Quarterly, January, 1924. Two papers, "Voltaire and Gacon," and "Unpublished Epigrams Against Voltaire's Early Works" were read by title at the last two meetings of the Modern Language Association of America. These two papers will appear later in print.
The Four Publishing Company of Los Angeles, California, have announced "I come Singing" (rhythms and poems) by H Thompson Rich 'l5. Mr. Rich, soon after his graduation from college became editor of the Forum, which position he retained for about two years, and then went west to go into the moving picture business. He has been a well known contributor of verse to several of the leading magazines. This volume, the first attempt to bring together in book form any of his poems, will be eagerly awaited by his many Dartmouth friends and readers in general.
