Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — Idael Makeever’s New Book. [ARTICLE]

Idael Makeever’s New Book.

A fact in the literary field which will interest many of our readers is that Idael Makeever has just published another volume of poems. Mrs. Makeever, though a resident of Nebraska, or as we might say, an adopteddaughter of that state, may also be said to be a daughter of Porter County, Indiana and a daughter-in-law of Jaspercounty The last relationship being due to the fact that her husband Milton M. Makeever, is a native of this county. Mrs. Makeever’s former volume “A Spray of Golden Rod” has brought her quite an extended reputation, and this new volume will add greatly in that line. Its title is “Prairie Flowers and Meadow Grasses.” Like her former volume it is elegantly printed and bound, and like that, also ,it is divided into two parts, one part consisting of dialect poems, the other and larger part, of non-dialect pieces. The dialect pieces are very good of their kind but we like the other kind much better, and are glad that Mrs. Makeever evidently does also. Mrs. Makeever’s first book “Golden Rod” has proven so pop* ular that the first edition is exhausted, and, concurrently with the publication of this new book, a second edition of the earlier one is issued also. Many Jasper county peopie will no doubt be glad to kuow that both of these books can be bought here in Rensselaer. They can be found at A. F. Long’s drug and book store. ,