+ Ind 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 70w
JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON. Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821
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The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom: “In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty stays her foot; Lover’s cry.
“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point, perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p299 My 13 ’20 680w
JESSUP, ALEXANDER, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright
20–12376
“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W. Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others, including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican