To the Editor of the "Nonmu-Ciuna Dany News"
Swj—I am enclosing extracts from two reviews of Mrs, Huntington's Tittle book of verse, recently noticed on, your book page:
Mrs, Huntington did not rush into print of her own volition, She is far too shy and modest for that. It was only afler much urging from persons whose standards of taste fare unquestioned that she consented. Chief of these were Vida Scudder, name {0 conjure with in the re-ions of Boston—Professor of Eng-fish Literature at, Wellesley for many years, lecturer, author—and Florence Gonverse, one' of the editors of the The second bit that you quoted seems to me very like Emily Dic~ Kingon, My criticism would be that was too like! Only four of Emily Dickinson's poems were ever pubished during her lifetime. The then editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" was too much in the classical tradition to recognize the genuine lyrie quality that her work possess led. She died in the 1870's or 1880's and it has only been since the turn of the century" that her poems have been fiven the world—some more than eight hundred now.
Our Pontes, Anking, May 7, 1936.
"Out of a. truly fine woman's thoughtful maturity, a maturity rich with experience of a wife, a mother and. 'a. World traveller, "Virginia Huntington has given us the exquisite Iyrles of "Shining Moment." The title poem, gives a breathless adventure in {he life of a missionary. but. the Volume osa whole breathes the mel-Tow tranquallty of the Orient, where Mrs, 'Huntington—as the wife' of the Bip of Anking-—has tong made her LIH, G, Axctican Turovocieas Review it, it, G. Is Dr. Herbert. Gowen, author of a history on China, and Profeccor. of Oriental' Literature. at Washington University "for many! years, his new book carries weight.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.