Niagara Falls 



1908 YOUNG, Rev. W. Montgomery. Rushing waters and deep sea 



Young pearls. 2d ed. Buffalo. Ulbrich. 1908. 



Two poems in reminiscent mood and rather halting meter. 



1909 



Deuther 



1909 



Ward 



1909 



Deuther, Charles George. Canticles of Niagara, and other 

 poems. (Buffalo, 1909.) 



Attempts at descriptions of the Canadian seasons in 1 600 and of the 

 river and Falls. 



WARD, Mrs. HUMPHREY. Marriage a la mode. N. Y. : Double- 

 day, Page and Co. 1909. Pp. 247-291. 



A story of marital infelicity and the laxness of American divorce laws 

 which brings a group of its characters to Niagara, and keeps them there for 

 two chapters. Interspersed through these two chapters are bits of descrip- 

 tion of the sound of the Falls at night through 1 a heavy fog, as well as 

 some more cheerful descriptions of their appearance on bright summer days. 

 This story appeared in England under the title of Daphne. 



Only a few yards from her the vast sheet of water descended. 

 She could see nothing of it, but the wind of its mighty plunge 

 blew back her hair, and her mackintosh cloak was soon dripping 

 with the spray. Once, far away, above the Falls, she seemed to 

 perceive a few dim lights along the bend of the river; perhaps 

 from one of the great power-houses that tame to man's service the 

 spirits of the water. Otherwise — nothing ! She was alone with 

 the perpetual challenge and fascination of the Falls. 



A light wind had risen and the fog was now break- 

 ing rapidly. As it gave way, the moonlight poured into the 

 breaches that the wind made; the vast black-and- silver spectacle, 

 the Falls, the gorge, the town opposite, the bridge, the clouds, 

 began to appear in fragments, grandiose and fantastical. 



The first days of June broke radiantly over the great gorge and 

 the woods which surround it. 



The invalid had just asked that her couch might be drawn as 

 near to the window as possible, and she lay looking towards the 



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