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REVIEWS OF 'SPIRIT OF FLAME' UKRAINIAN GIRL GENUINE POET t Dedicated to the “organized Ukrainian women of. the U. S.,” this collection of poems, w ritten in the late 1800s, shows the au thor’s interest and appreciation of the literature of her time. Lesya, “the Ukrainian,” a girl fighting a losing battle with tu berculosis, lived her invalid’s life with books of all countries. Although her critics spoke of her work a-s exotic, to our 20th Century point of view, they are f >oems for any time, for any civi- ization. She wrote short poems of ten der i-nisiight and long dramatic poems, suc>h as ‘‘On the Ruins,” set in historic backgrounds, but vivid with the intimate details of everyday living. One gets a hint of her admira tion for Robert Browning in the color and rhythm of her writing, but her own deep concern with humanity’s quest of eternal val ues illumines the majority of her work and speaks to the reader of today, as it must have done to the reader of the last century. Frances Palmer. (Democrat and Chronicle, Ro chester, N. Y.). A UKRAINIAN POET Poets, a-s everyone has known since the romantic reactions, are very odd fellows. You can’t be ordinary, work-a-day, and busi- ness-a's-usual when you think of things as being “a dome of many colored glass,” or when you find identity in beauty and truth and maintain that that is all that anyone has to know. Nor can you, as a rule, do the dis
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