Show Convict Writes Book of Verse Another remarkable collection of ot verses verse'S has come to hand and this time the author Is a long term prisoner In Inan Inan inan an gas Eastern tern penitentiary Shut away behind the gray gra walls hi his lon long confinement confinement con con- and knowledge of ot the heights and depths or ot life have Inspired him to produce a poetic record of his life and the th lives l of ot his companions The book is called A Tale of or a Walled Town by B B. At first thought the tha discriminating r reader ader would pause before i pursuing a a. book written by a man who has violated violated violated vio vio- the law law- but If It the first poem Is biographical then the poet deserves deserved consideration and mercy Here Is a s sample mple of some of ot his lines They know but little of ot desire Who Vho know no wall i aut ut we who sit by no hearth fire Do know it all The fierce desire to see and Home Homp faces facE's and home fires fire's gl glow w All An that we let so lightly go And would recall i There Is power In many of ot the poems and a passionate beauty be-autv that Is upliftIng uplift uplift- Ing J In B. B the Lippencott l strength t of Co Us its Intensity and London |