LIBER'S N OTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 229, 21 June 1919, Page 11

LIBER'S N OTE BOOK

Andrew Lang's Tribute to Oversea. Britons, Mntiv renders of (lie rncently-pnblish-ed fifth volume of "Rnglish Poets" edited by Mr. T. IT. Ward—husband of Mrs. Tf(ttiipln-ey AVard—will agroh that the best tribute to Britain's overseas peoples

mid their kinship to the Mother Chuntry is (Jig following:— You, lilfo that fairy people Ect, Of old in their em-hanled sea Par oir from men, might w«»Il forget An elder nnlion's toil and frut. Might liei'd not might, hut game anil glee. But wlint. your fathers were you arc In lanila the fathers never knew, 'Neath skies of alien sit'ii and star You rally to Hie English war; Your hearts are Unglish. kind and true. And now, when 'first on England falls The shadow of a darkening falo. You hear the Mother ere she colls, You leave your oiTean-girdlcd walls, . And face her foemen in, the gate. These lines were'not' written in IfllJ, but by Andrew bang on the offer.of help from flie Australians after Khartoum in IS'.)B. The Two Elirr.beth Robins. Klizabeth llobins, the novelist, who cave Hi thai: capital slory. '.'The .Mm;uelie North," and who wrote a painful but very powerful slorv with (lie while slave traffic ns its motif, is. I tee, confounded liy it .writer in ' « pil|K>r v.ifli Elizabeth Hobins I'en- ■ noil, who, wiili her husband. Mr. Joseph Pennell, the well-known American etcher, Ion? resident in Bngland, was responsible for Hint iiionuuioiiIrtl work, "Tlie Life and Art ni .Tames Whistler." Tho Klizabeth liobins, whoso later story, "Camilla," was recently reviewed in this column, is a Mrs. Pnrkes. Some of her earlier work was done under the .pen namo of "C. K. f!ainioud."