along with Mr. Swinburne's noble eulogy"—we have now complied with the demand and await such reception as our British cousins sometimes extend to us—we are told nothing as to its history, if a privately printed volume of such obscurity and limited sale can be said to have had a history.[1]
And for ourselves having said what in brief the book means to us, we can do no more and no better than offer it untampered with, precisely as it came from the poet-artist's brain, in the hope that if admirers are few they are at least genuine; believing that those who truly care for rare and beautiful things will find far removed from the cark of commercialism such vision of perfect loveliness as once seen abides forever.
- ↑ In Mr. Bertram Dobell's interesting Catalogue of Books Printed for Private Circulation, (London, 1906) there is this entry: Solomon's (Simeon) A Mystery of Love in Sleep. Crown 8vo. pp. 15. 7s. 6d. 1871. For once I venture to believe this very accurate bibliographer and friend of mine to be in error.
last he was extremely cheerful and not aggressively alcoholic." It is to be hoped that Mrs. Ford who met and conversed with Solomon at a much later date will have something of more decided interest in her forthcoming Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With 21 illustrations. Quarto. ($3.50 net.) Edition limited to 300 copies. F. F. Sherman, 42 West 39th St., New York.
