Wi who hitherto has received from and confined his inspiration to two sources, the Greek and the Hebrew. From the one he has learned to fashion his verses in clean sym-merry. From the other he has wrenched his turgid, distorted sub-Jeet matter. It is with curiosity that we discover that he is now coming into touch with the Chinese and is with greater surprise that we discover that his conversion of the poems of Kiang Kang-Hu has been more than mere translation, There is a simple secret in the lore of Chinese generations which has made it easy, not only for ter Bynner to translate the ancient verses of the T'ang Dynasty, (years 618-906) into modern En; lish, but also for these verses to live, ent history, but as re. actions to the eternal principles of living. And that secret is that the Chinese has always maintained within himself the head of a man id the heart of a child. The world accepted exactly as he finds it in its terms. and with profound simplicity solace is found there Even in phraseology the Chinese seldom talks about one thing in {terms of another, but is able enough and sure enough, as an artist to make the ultimately exact terms be-Jcome the beautiful terms. There is this brief verse:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.