Through Field and Fallow.
Through Field and Fallow.
Through Field and Fallow.
Through Field and Fallow.
A Choice Collection of Original Poems.By JEAN HOOPER PAGE.CLOTH, GILT TOP, $1.00.
A Choice Collection of Original Poems.By JEAN HOOPER PAGE.CLOTH, GILT TOP, $1.00.
A Choice Collection of Original Poems.
By JEAN HOOPER PAGE.
CLOTH, GILT TOP, $1.00.
It is not always the brilliant work which appeals to us most keenly. Sarcasm and rhetoric have their place, but the book that lies on the desk and is found in the mending-basket is the book, nine times out of ten, that deals with everyday life and sweeps across the strings of the heart. While Mrs. Page’s work, “Through Field and Fallow,” often touches the subtle minor chords, it invariably swells to the triumphant major and rings clear and true in the sweetness of undying hope and unquenchable faith.
Much of Mrs. Page’s work has appeared first in our great daily newspapers, but its life has been less ephemeral than theirs. Here and there a woman has treasured some bit in her scrap book; a man has clipped a verse and put it away in the drawer of his desk marked “private.” Sooner or later in this little volume the reader will find the poem that was written for him.
Father Ryan once wrote: “To uplift the downcast, to sweeten any life, to feel that we in some way have helped to lighten the great burden that rests upon mankind—this is the only real compensation that comes to the poet.” This recompense will be Mrs. Page’s.