Poets’ Corner—

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 14

Poets ’ Corner—

THE WINDY NIGHT (Written for THE SUN.) My granny, drowsing in the warmth, sits in her high-backed chair, My mother's where the leaping flames throw fire- gleams on her hair, And “Boy,” she says, “go bring your book, and read an old-tim.e tale, That ice may listen and forget the raging of the gale; A tale of ladies, silken-dressed, who wander in the sun, ’Mid roses and ’mid rosemary till sunlit day be done; A tale of kings and oallant lords, and sword-blades flashing bright — Come, read aloud that we forget the wind outside to-night.” My mother was a sailor’s wife , but never loved the sea, Desires that stirred my father’s blood are heritage for me. How can I read of kings and courts when in the bending trees The wind goes roaring with the sound of wide tempestuous seas? High in the darkness of the storm I’m reefing flogging sails — The sea it is m.y father’s grave, and tragic are. its tales. How can I read a tale of love , of laughter and of light, When all my heart, my hungry heart, is in the windy night? M. H. POINTER. Lochiel, Southland. GLlMPSE[Written for The Sun.l Two bent grey horses sweating And straining up a hill, To drag a load of barrels For red-necked men to swill, 4 young girl through a window Bent to a dark machine .... find birds somewhere are tilting Above a field of green! NORA STACY.

The A r fists ’Corner i | AUCKLANDERS WILL HAVE | AN OPPORTUNITY OF VIEWj ING ART TREASURES OF I ALEXANDER TURNBULL MUSEUM LOAN EXHIBITIONS PROPOSED One of the most important developments in art circles, in—which Auckland will share, is reported from Wellington. The Director of the Alexander Turnbull Museum, Mr. Johannes Andersen, is going to make available to the public certain of the library’s art treasures. The library is particularly rich in prints, drawings and etchings. The collection of Rembrandt etchings, for instance, is probably unequalled in the world. There are also approximately 200 examples of work by Australians, including the early output of Lionel Lindsay, Ashton and Shirlaw. The British representation is even larger. Auckland is particularly interested in the Australians because they are to feature in one of the City Council’s shows early next year. In order to see preeiselv what is in the Alexander Turnbull Library the City Art Director, Mr. John Barr, has left for Wellington. He was accompanied by Mr. T. V. Gulliver, whose assistance at the Auckland loan exhibitions has been invaluable. As it is Mr. Barr’s intention to visit Sydney toward the end of the month, he was anxious to ascertain precisely what examples of the Australians would be available from Wellington. A proposal by Mr. Andersen to the Government that he should be permitted to supply the different Dominion galleries with loan collections, has received Ministerial sanction. It is Mr. Andersen’s belief that his stock is so large that the galleries will be able to call upon it for several years to come. When one gallery has concluded its show, the exhibits will be forwarded to another, and so on until every New Zealand city of importance has viewed them.

Precisely what “finds” will come to light in the Alexander Turnbull Library no one can say at the present juncture. Auckland’s in the matter of loan collections will bear excellent fruit if the public is permitted to know exactly what the Alexander Turnbull Museum contains in the way of art treasures. The early Barrauds. for instance, in that library, would stimulate considerable historical interest if exhibited here.

No city has more loyally supported the municipal authorities in their efforts to encourage interest, in matters artistic by way of loan collections. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Auckland will have an early opportunity of seeing the first Alexander Turnbull Library loan exhibition. —ERIC RAMSDEN. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “THE SPINDRIFT OF YOUTH” by ■Lawrence David. "TWILIGHT” by Count Edouard von Keyserling. “BENIGHTED" by J■ B. Priestley. “FLAMINGO" by Mary Borden. “MISS TO RRO BIN’S EXPERIMENT" by H. A. Yachell. “HOUNDS OF THE SEA" by Dorothea Conyers. "THE SILENT COMRADE" by Peter B. Kyne. “MEANWHILE” by 11. G. Wells. "FIERY PARTICLES" by C. E. Montague. "MICAH CLARKE" by Sir A. Conan Doyle. NON-FICTION “MOTHER INDIA" by Katherine Mayo. "THE LONDON PERAMBULATOR" by James Bone. "FOOTPRINTS OF EARLY MAN“ by Donald A. Mackenzie. "ON A PARIS ROUNDABOUT” by Jan Gordon. "THE FIRE OF DESERT FOLK” by F. Ossendowski. "NOW WE ARE SIX" by A. A. Milne. “QUEEN MARY" by Kathleen Woodward. "MAN AND THE SUPERNATURAL" by Evelyn Underhill. "SHANDY GAFF" by Christopher Morley. "JOHN GALSWORTHY AS A DRAMATIC CRITIC" by R. H. Coates,