20–7866
A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of that city.
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 52:63 S ’20 30w Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 200w
“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling, or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which fills the rest of the book.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p110 F 12 ’20 120w
JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr. Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
19–16027
The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight; Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.