Library Notes

Some of the authors in the fiction section are : D. K. Broster, John Buchan, F. T. Bullen, C. Doyle, A. Dumas, C. S. Forester, A. Hope, H. Innes, W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, R. Kipling, S. Leacock, A. E. W. Mason, Baroness Orczy, J. B. Priestley, N. Shute, R. L. Stevenson, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, H. Walpole, P. C. Wren, F. B . Young.

FOUR POEMS

THE ELF KING (from Goethe)

Who rides so late o'er the lonely heath

When the winds are roaring wild? A father is galloping home, beneath

His cloak is his little child. "My son, what makes you tug at my gown r — "Look, father, the fairy king ! The fairy king with sceptre and crown"— " 'Tis but imagining !" "Beloved child, come, come with me

To the fairy realms beyond, Behold the flowers by the fairy sea

And my mother's golden wand." "My father, my father, didn't you hear?

The elf-king spoke to me !"— "Hush, hush my darling, have no fear, 'Twas only the wind in the tree." "Come away, come away my heart's delight.

My daughter awaits in the deep, My daughter is queen of the children of night,

She shall rock you, and sing you to sleep." "See, father, the elf-king's daughter there?

My father, oh ! don't you see?"— "I see and I hear all there is to hear,

The wind, and the willow tree." "You shall come, my child, you shall come I vow,

For I love your childish charm"— "My father, my father, he seizes me now,

The elf-king does me harm !" Swiftly the father onward paced

Holding the sleeping head, And reached his home with every haste,

But the child in his arms was dead.