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Show World Awaiting Volume of Poetry by Eskimos Knud Easmussen, the Arctic explorer, ex-plorer, has sprung a surprise upon the world. He has celebrated his return to civilization, after many years of wandering wan-dering in the wilds, by publishing a volume of poems by Eskimos. It will be interesting to see the poems in English. We may be sure Easmussen has presented them worthily in print, for, with his European Euro-pean education, he has the advantage of being half an Eskimo, and so thoroughly understands his subject. It seems natural for primitive people peo-ple to talk of wild picturesque poetry, unrhymed, but full of beauty and imagination, such as we see fixed for all time in the musical names which the Bed Indians gave to rivers and lakes and mountains In their native land. It will be remembered by some that scholars have declared the Eskimo Es-kimo language contains only nbout two hundred words, which should add greatly to the labors of the poets. |