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Show -v Edmund j COOKE APPEARS HERE TONIGHT - j Third Number In the U. A. C.-B. Y. C Lyceum Series to be Presented at ,J the Tabernacle Tonight .Edmund Vance Cooke, the Popular Poet and 'Author to bo the Attraction. Tho third number In tho Lyceum i ' series which Is being conducted this ' Boason under the ,Jolnt auspices of f tho Utah Agricultural Colego and tho " Brlgham Young College will tako place at tho Tabernacle tonight Mr. ' Edmund Vanco Cooko, whoso namo is a family word to most of tho readers read-ers throughout tho country becauso of tho distinct stylo of his poetry and his Inlmltablo manner of read- 9 ', ltB it Is to bo tho attraction. Mr. .' Cooko needs no Introduction to most ' . of tho people of Logan. His namo may bo seen In some of the leading popular magazines of tho day In con- noc'tlon with hlo charming poems, 2 nnd.Tt Is safo to say that as a lytlo ML poet Mr., Cooko stands In the front "95te rank's. lUa poems of child Ufo aro g$n among tho most Intonsoly Interest- W' ! Idb In present day lltoraturo. I I HIh Inlmltablo "Moo Cow Moo, 5 J "De Goofeh Jack," "tfot a Coon Bong A - Cocn."-are"nllin'l!gbtor ""ta'J?t' ' hl'Ponnor McCarthy." W& 'Tho Miner Hole," give tho reader a deep insight Into 'the true nature of tho poet. A well known critic writing of Ed-mund Ed-mund Vance Cook has compared tho work to Stevenson's and Eugene, Field's, and Indeed tho poems losq nothing In comparison with tho best of thoso authors' child verse. There is a spontaneity to tho humor, a touching realism in the pathos and a pervasive beauty in the sentiment that raises Mr. Cooke's verse to height seldom attained by even tho poets referred to. Mr. Cooko Is clover clov-er and versatile. Whllo his themes are stamped with originality, thero Is something suggestive of tho genial Holmes and the laugh provoking Hood. With tho memory of tho last number num-ber of tho Lyceum course still lingering linger-ing pleasantly In tho public mind, tho program for tonight gives promise of being highly successful, both from tho artistic and financial point of view. |