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...country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong sounds of secure life, she begins to recover her poise. "She heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet rather than of a novelist. Creating in a prose form, she sometimes goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation...
...influence, China is responsible for the silver bronze of the lovely "Yang Kuel Zel", the powerful favorite of the most famous of T'ang Emperors. Her body moves in one curve slowly and delicately. Very different is the more varied and violent posture of the "Chinese Actor", in lacquered poplar. Japanese art has suggested "The Conspirator", The Japanese Courtesan" and, above all, the "Ishikawa Danjuro". This last follows very closely the precedent set for this actor in Japanese prints, but the change to sculpture has been most cleverly made so that the piece loses none of its decorative effect...
...trembling of a poplar-leaf...
...setting with all its manifold possibilities is worked into the story only so far as in necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
Illinois, tornadoes killed 255, injured more than 1,000. Hardest hit was Poplar Bluff, Mo., with 103 dead...