Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Peace in Frienship Village by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: A Daughter of the Morning by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Romance Island by Zona Gale

Reproduction of the original: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

"Poems of delicacy and sensitiveness expressing the deep secret urge of the soul toward things that shall not pass. We were interested in "The Secret Way," Zona Gale's latest volume of verse recently published. We found them even better than we had anticipated, quite up to Miss Gale's usual standard. Her poems possess that melodious harmony which we though quite departed from modern verse, while their sweetness and complacency is charming. We should list her Terza Rima in this class because of the appeal of their rhythm and tone. But Miss Gale is not a bas bleu of the past. In her Prose Notes occupying the latter portion of the book we found modernisms or striking quality both in form and structure. However, she is most at home with the simplest of her verse." --"The Independent and the Weekly Review" [1921]

Although it is June, the Little Child about whom I shall sometimes write in these pages this morning brought me a few violets. June violets. They sound unconvincing and even sentimental. However, here they are in their vase; and they are all white but one. "Only one blue one," said Little Child, regretfully; "May must be 'most dead by mistake." "Don't the months die as soon as they go away?" I asked her, and a little shocked line troubled her forehead. "Oh, no," she said; "they never die at all. They wait and show the next months how." So this year's May is showing June how. As if one should have a kind of pre-self, who kept on, after one's birth, and told one what to live and what not to live. I wish that I had had a pre-self and that it had kept on with me to show me how.