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THE WORKS OF RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
ENGLISH POEMS. Fourth Edition, Revised. Purple Cloth. 12mo. Price $1.50.
"There is plenty of accomplishment, there is abundance of tuneful notes, sentiment often very pleasing, delicacy, grace. The best thing in the book to one's own taste is the last half of 'Sunset in the City.' 'Paolo and Francesca' is very clever."—Mr. Andrew Lang in the New Review.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: An Elegy. And other Poems, mainly Personal. With Etched Frontispiece by D. Y. Cameron, 12mo. Price $1.50.
"Few, indeed, could be more fit to sing the dirge of that 'Virgil of prose' than the poet whose curiosa felicitas is so close akin to Stevenson's own charm."—Daily Chronicle.
GEORGE MEREDITH: Some Characteristics. With a Bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane. Portrait, etc. Fifth edition. Purple Cloth, 12mo. $2.00.
"All Meredithians must possess George Meredith: Some Characteristics, by Richard Le Gallienne. This book is a complete and excellent guide to the novelist and the novels, a sort of Meredithian Bradshaw, with pictures of the traffic superintendent and the head office at Boxhill. Even Philistines may be won over by the blandishments of Mr. Le Gallienne."—Punch.
RUDYARD KIPLING: A Criticism. By Richard Le Gallienne. With a bibliography by John Lane. 12mo. $1.25.
THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL. Twelfth Edition. 12mo. $1.50.
"Glow of colour is his, feeling for landscape, magic of style, whimsical fancy: a delightful excuse for digressions upon men and things. Who, with this song of the Spring in his ears, could not 'follow in the wake of the magical music'? In this wise, with wit, wisdom, and mirth, the pilgrim returns to the city."—The London Daily Telegraph.
YOUNG LIVES: A Romance. Second Edition. 12mo. $1.50.
"The sweetest and most idealistic work he has yet produced."—The Boston Post.
THE WORSHIPPER OF THE IMAGE. A Tragic Fairy Tale. 12mo. $1.50.
"Mr. Le Gallienne is a literary exquisite who handles the daintiest flowers of fancy with fingers that do not bruise them."—The Chicago Times-Herald.
THE ROMANCE OF ZION CHAPEL. Fifth Edition. 12mo. $1.50.
"The reader will, we feel sure, place this book higher than anything in the way of prose the author has yet produced. It reads like a transcript from life."—The London Daily Chronicle.
SLEEPING BEAUTY: And other Prose Fancies. 12mo. $1.50.
"Another fragrant posy of Essays and critical articles. He has a precious gift of personality."—The London Star.
TRAVELS IN ENGLAND. With six illustrations by Herbert Railton. 12mo. $1.50.
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r/^^ WORKS ^/SOME MODERN POETS A VOLUME OF COLLECTIVE CRITICISM POETS OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION By William Archer. Price ^6,00 net. Illustrated with 33 fine woodcut portraits by Robert Bryden. Poets renjiezued: H. C. Beeching, A. C. Benson, Laurence Binyon, Miss Alice Brown, Bliss Carman,- Madison Cawein, A. T. Quiller Couch, F. B. Money-Coutts, John Davidson, Mrs. Hinkson, Miss Nora Hopper (Mrs. Chesson), A. E. Housman, Laurence Housman, Richard Hovey, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Le Gallienne, Mrs. Meynell, Miss E. Nesbit (Mrs, Bland), Henry Newbolt, Stephen Phillips, Mrs. Radford, Charles G. D. Roberts, George Santayana, Duncan Campbell Scott, Miss Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Shorter), Arthur Symons, John B. Tabb, Francis Thompson, Herbert Trench, Mrs. Marriott Watson, William Watson, Mrs. Woods, William Butler Yeats. The London Daily Telegraph (Mr. Leonard Courtney) says : " In a series of delightful essays Mr. Archer succeeds in hitting off their peculiar traits and individual characteristics. . . . He has done a capital piece of work, which all those who care for the imaginative and artistic efforts of our generation will be glad to keep on their bookshelves." The London Daily Chronicle says: "The volume is a treasure house of well-argued criticism, no less than a collection of much admirable and some little-known poetry. . . . In short, this is a book to interest and profit every one who has any taste, for the study of poetry and poetic methods." The Nation sdLys: " Unquestionably by far the best work of its kind. . . . altogether candid and honest.' THE WORKS OF REV. H. C. BEECHING SAINT AUGUSTINE AT OSTIA : Oxford Sacred Poem. i2mo. Wrappers. 50 cents. IN A GARDEN. Poems. i2mo. ^1.50. Mr. William Archer : " An English garden is the congenial haunt of Mr. Beeching's muse. We recognize it at a glance as a parsonage garden. Mr. Beeching's love of nature in its homelike aspects is very genuine, his passion and his pietjr are alike sincere, and his lyric gift is far from insignificant. It is never common or jarring. One reads it with interest, and returns to it with pleasure." THE WORKS OF ARTHUR C. BENSON LORD VYET, AND OTHER POEMS. i6mo. ^1.25. LYRICS. Fcap. 8vo. Buckram. ^1.50. THE PROFESSOR, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. ^1.25 net. The Speaker: "One of the most charming voices in the poetry of the day is Mr. Benson's. It is poetry so sequestered, so soft, so alert for the sounds of earth and the voices that whisper near earth. His is the true poetic spirit, and with each book his manner grows sweeter and more assured." The Athenceum: "Mr. Benson is an accomplished writer of verse. He is sincere, unaffected, and has observed certain things which most people do not observe, and with so vivid an interest in them himself that Iiis record of these things in verse seems to suggest a new kind of poetic substance." THE WORKS OF JOHN DAVIDSON GODFRIDA : A Play in Four Acts. i6mo. ^1.50. NEW BALLADS. i6mo. ^1.50. BALLADS AND SONGS. i6mo. $1.50. FLEET STREET ECLOGUES. First and Second Series combined in one volume. i2mo. $1.50.
THE WORKS OF JOHN DAVIDSON — Continued, THE LAST BALLAD, AND OTHER POEMS. i2mo. ^1.50. A RANDOM ITINERARY AND A BALLAD. With a Frontispiece by Laurence Hous- MAN. i6nio. $1.50. PLAYS : An Unhistorical Pastoral ; A Romantic Farce : Bruce, a Chronicle Play ; Smith, a Tragic Farce; Scaramouch in Naxos, a Pantomime. With a Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Small 4to. ^2.50 net. The London Times says: " Mr. John Davidson, when the fine frenzy of inspiration is upon him, writes verse that must appeal to all who have any poetical instinct. His imagination glows and his phrases strike home. He stands among the few writers of the day who really write poetry." THE WORKS OF RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D. POEMS. i2mo. $1.50. DANTE, PETRARCH, CAMOENS, cxxiv Sonnets rendered in English. i2mo. j^i.50. QUEEN VICTORIA AND OTHER POEMS. i2mo. ^1.25. The Chicago Evening Post : " By nature a lover of his kind in the most inclusive sense, in his heart always on the side of the weak against the strong, of the oppressed against the oppressor, if ever he forget his duty to his fellows the muse comes with swift retribution." The Bookman : "True metal, fashioned by a craftsman who, having lived all his life among the best models, will have nothing common or flimsy in his own work." THE WORKS OF KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON CUCKOO SONGS. i6mo. $i.zs. OUR LORD'S COMING AND CHILDHOOD. Six Miracle Plays. With six illustrations by Patten Wilson. i2mo. $1.50. Mr. William Archer : " Very Irish, very feminine, very human, Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson possesses a clear and beautiful vein of talent, which might, indeed, be too grandiloquently praised, but can scarcely be overvalued. Mrs. Hinkson is a born poetess if ever there was one. All impressions from without, whether of nature, love, patriotism, or devotion, find their spontaneous reaction in poetry, and touch her soul to song, and the note of her singing is always pure, fresh, limpid, sincere." THE WORKS OF EDMOND HOLMES THE SILENCE OF LOVE: Sonnets. Post 4to. ^1.50. Second edition. Also issued in the "Lover's Library." Cloth 50 cents net ^ leather 75 cents net. WHAT IS POETRY? An Essay. Post 4to. ^1.25. WALT WHITMAN : An Essay and a Selection. Post 4to. ^1.25 «cr. The Chicago Times-Herald : " Mr. Holmes has studied the best masters, and has studied them welh He has, moreover, the natural grace and instinct of the poet. Such production is as refreshing as an oasis in these days." The London Times: "A volume of quite uncommon beauty and distinction. The Shakespearean in- fluence that is suggested shows that the author has gone to school with the best masters, and his mastery of the form he has chosen gives the best evidence of conscientious workmanship." THE WORKS OF NORA HOPPER UNDER QUICKENED BOUGHS. i2mo. $1.50. BALLADS IN PROSE. Small 4to. ^1.50. Mr. William Archer: "A very frank, free, imaginative, and melodious talent is that of Miss Nora Hopper. She has in full measure all the poetic qualities of her Celtic race, without the metaphysical fa- naticisms which sometimes accompany them. There is nothing morbid, nothing overstrained about her work. There is originality, sincerity, melody in all she does, she is a bom singer of songs."
THE WORKS OF A. E. HOUSMAN
A SHROPSHIRE LAD: Poems. Leather. 18mo. $1.00 net.
Mr. William Archer: " One of Mr. Housman's strongest and rarest qualities — his unerring dramatic instinct. It is long since we have caught just this note in English verse — the note of intense feeling uttering itself in language of unadorned precision, uncontorted truth. — Mr. Housman is a vernacular poet, if ever there was one. But if he is vernacular, he is also classical in the best sense of the word. His simplicity is not that of weakness but of strength and skill. He eschews extrinsic and factitious ornament because he knows how to attain beauty without it."
THE WORK OF LAURENCE HOUSMAN
GREEN ARRAS : Poems. With six illustrations, title-page, cover-design, and end-papers by the author. 12mo. $1.50.
Mr. William Archer: "I need not dwell upon the strength, the terseness, the fine teciinical quality of these verses. Everywhere, as it seems to me, Mr. Housman's work is essentially poetic. Mr. Housman always writes with distinction, sometimes with real beauty, and generally with as much perspicuity as can be demanded of a poet who dwells exclusively on matters which, by hypothesis, transcend human reason."
THE POEMS OF EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
POEMS. With a Memoir by W. V. Gill, and a Critical Estimate by John Addington Symonds. With a frontispiece portrait. 12mo. $1.50.
John Addington Symonds: "The artistic value of Lefroy's work is great. . . . Lefroy proved that it is possible to combine religious faith with frank delight in natural loveliness, to be a Christian without asceticism, and a Greek without sensuality. . . . This simplicity and absolute sincerity of instinct are surely uncommon in our perplexed epoch. To rest for a moment upon the spontaneous and unambitious poetry which glowed from such a nature cannot fail to refresh minds wearied with the storm and stress of modern thought."
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[edit]THE BOOKS OF ALICE MEYNELL LATER POEMS. 12mo. ^$1.00 net. Uniform with Poems." The Chicag-o Tribune: "In this little volume of ' Later Poems' there are many charming verses, and probably no living English woman poet stands on the same plane with her."
POEMS. 12mo. $1.25. Fourth edition. Mr. George Meredith, in The National Revte7v, August, 1896: "To the metrical themes attempted by her she brings emotion, sincerity, together with an exquisite play upon our finer chords quite her own, not to be heard from another. Some of her lines have the living tremor in them. The poems are beautiful in idea as in grace of touch."
THE RHYTHM OF LIFE, and Other Essays. 12mo. $1.25. Fourth edition.
Athenaum (London). "Full of profound, searching, sensitive appreciation of all kinds of subjects. Exercises in close thinking and exact expression, almost unique in the literature of the day." Mr. Coventry Patmore, in The Fortnightly Review : "I am about to direct attention to one of the very rarest products of nature and grace — a woman of genius, one who I am bound to confess has falsified the assertion I made some time ago that no female writer of our time has attained to true 'distinction.' "
THE COLOUR OF LIFE, and Other Essays. 12mo. $1.25. Fourth edition. Mr. George Meredith, in The National Review : "I can fancy Matthew Arnold lighting on such essays as I have named, saying with refreshment, * She can write! ' It does not seem to me too bold to imagine Carlisle listening, without the weariful gesture, to his wife's reading of the same, hearing them to the end, and giving his comment, * That woman thinks.' "
THE BOOKS OF ALICE MEYNELL — Contmued, THE SPIRIT OF PLACE, and Other Essays. i2mo. ^1.25. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle : " A volume of delightful essays. It is doubtful whether any essayist has ever received so much reverential praise from contemporaries as Mrs. Alice Meynell. Certainly no woman has ever been so universally acknowledged as having complete command of English. Ruskin, George Meredith, and the leading reviewers are for once agreed." THE CHILDREN. With Covers, End-Papers, Title-page, Initials, and other Ornaments w designed by Will H. Bradley. i2mo. ^1.25. TAis is thejint book printed at the Wayside Press by Will H. Bradley. Professor J. Sully : " To a pretty theme she has applied her prettiest manner. She comes certificated by authoritative hand, as trained by maternal sympathy in the unlocking of children's secrets." THE WORKS OF F. B. MONEY-COUTTS THE REVELATION OF ST. LOVE THE DIVINE: A Poem. i6mo. $1.00. THE ALHAMBRA, AND OTHER POEMS. i2mo. ^1.25. POEMS. i2mo. ^1.25. THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS. i6mo. ^i.oo. Stephen Phillips : " The reader feels behind this verse always a brave and tender spirit, a soul which has at any rate * beat its music out; ' which will not compromise, which cannot lie, which is in love with the highest that it sees.' ' H. D. Traill : " Mr. Money-Coutts is master of the rare and difficult art of clothing thought in the true poetic language." The London Daily Chronicle says : *' Mr. Money-Coutts has imagination and feeling in plenty ; he has vigour and sincerity of thought ; and he has often a very noteworthy felicity of phrase. He is a strong poetic craftsman, and his work is always carefully and delicately finished. It is plain on every page that Mr. Coutts is a serious and strenuous craftsman, who places a fine and individual faculty at the service of a lofty ideal." THE WORK OF E. NESBIT (mrs. bland). A POMANDER OF VERSE. i2mo. ^^1.50. Mr. William Archer : "There is more feeling than art in the poetry of Miss E. Nesbit; but the feeling is often very genuine, and of the art one may at least say that it has ripened with every book the poetess has put forth. Miss Nesbit had from the first a remarkable fluency and a correct ear for metres. Her real strength is centred in the pure lyric, whether personal or semi-dramatic. It is in the simplicity of the sheer love-song that Miss Nesbit touches her truest note." THE WORKS OF HENRY NEWBOLT ADMIRALS ALL, AND OTHER POEMS. i6mo. 35 cents. THE ISLAND RACE: Poems. i6mo. ^i.oo. The London Daily Chronicle: " Perfect in their kind, and could not be bettered." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat: " Delicate, and almost elusive, as is the spirit of his muse, it yet sweeps the whole range of human life and whispers not too boldly, but yet all trustingly, of the life beyond or behind it. The spiritual tone that uplifts it is one of the special merits of this poet's verse, and its lyric sweetness and melody its unfailing charm. There are no halting rhymes anywhere, nor any labored notes or hard coined words to break the grace, delicacy, and clearness of both poetic thought and expression." The New York Tribune : " It is a great comfort to come upon a new singer."
I THE POETIC y DRAMATIC WORKS of STEPHEN PHILLIPS HEROD: A Tragedy in Three Acts. Twenty-first Thou- sand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price ;^i.50. The opinion of The London Times: " Here, then, is a noble work of dramatic imagination, dealing greatly with great passion ; multi-coloured and exquisitely musical. Though it is ' literature ' throughout, it is never the literature of the closet, but always the literature of the theatre, with the rapid action, the marked con- trasts, the fierce beating passion, the broad effects proper to the theatre. In other words, Mr. Stephen Phillips is not only a poet, and a rare poet, but that still rarer thing, a dramatic poet." The Daily News: "The drama possesses the sovereign quality of movement, and it is even prodigal in the matter of dramatic situations. To this we have to add that its dialogue speaks the language of passion, and is rarely encumbered by mere descriptive or reflective passages." PAOLO AND FRANCESCA: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Twentieth Thousand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price ;^i.25. The opinion of The New York Times : " Nothing finer has come to us from an English pen in the way of a poetic and literary play than this since the appearance of Taylor's ' Philip von Artevelde.' " Mr. William Archer in The Daily Chronicle: "A thing of exquisite poetic form, yet tingling from first to last with intense dramatic life. Mr. Phillips has achieved the impossible. Sardou could not have ordered the action more skilfully, Tennyson could not have clothed the passion in words of purer loveliness. " POEMS. Containing "Christ in Hades," "Marpessa," etc. Twelfth Thousand. Green Cloth. i2mo. Price $.^o. The opinion of The London Times : " Mr. Phillips is a poet, one of the half-dozen men of the younger generation whose writings contain the indefinable quality which makes for permanence." Mr. William Archer in The Outlook : " He sees clearly, feels intensely, and writes beautifully; in a word he is a true poet." MARPESSA. With Seven Illustrations by Philip Connard. Tenth Thousand. Square i6mo. Green Cloth, 50c. net; Green Leather, 75c. net. The opinion of Mr. William Watson : "In * Marpessa ' he has demonstrated what I should hardly have thought demonstrable — that another poem can be finer than ' Christ in Hades.' I had long believed, and my belief was shared by not a few, that the poetic possibilities of classic myth were exhausted ; yet the youngest of our poets takes this ancient story and makes it newly beautiful, kindles it into tremulous life, clothes it with the mystery of interwoven delight and pain, and in the best sense keeps it classic all the ■while."
THE HUMOROUS WORKS OF OWEN SEAMAN IN CAP AND BELLS : A Book of Verses. 16mo. $1.25. THE BATTLE OF THE BAYS. 16mo. $1.25. Third edition. HORACE AT CAMBRIDGE. 16mo. $1.25. New edition.
The Pall Mall Gazette: "Mr. Seaman must be tired of being compared to Calverly and J. K. S., but he is of their company, and what is more, on their level. . . . One charm of writing such as Mr. Seaman's is that it makes us feel quite obliged to poets whom we have never admired, for being so good to parody."
The National Observer: "His versatility and ready wit are conspicuous in all his work. As a parodist he is second to none, not even to Mr. Calverly. Mr. Seaman cracks the whip with consummate skill, and applies it with such naughty precision that even his victims must find it difficult to withhold their admiration."
THE WORK OF DORA SIGERSON (mrs. clement shorter).
THE FAIRY CHANGELING AND OTHER POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.
Mr. William Archer: "There is race in her work; it smacks of the soil; it is no mere imitative culture-product, but an expression of innate emotion and impulse. Mrs. Shorter has all the fanciful melancholy, the ardent spirituality, and the eerie-pathetic invention of the western Kelts. The unseen world of semi-malignant elemental beings is quite as real to her as the tangible world of her five senses. Her imagination is nourished on folk-lore."
THE WORKS OF ARTHUR SYMONS
THE POEMS OF ARTHUR SYMONS, with photogravure portrait of the author as frontis- piece. In two volumes. 12mo. $3.50 net.
Mr. William Archer: " Mr. Symons is a love poet or nothing ; when he sings of love he is himself in the expression of his moods. Mr. Symons often attains real beauty. He writes very well — fluently, gracefuly, without the slightest harshness or vulgarity of form. Mr. Symons does not merely record his own actual sensations and experiences, but gives them an imaginative extension, working out in detail the data they provide, the possibilities implicit in them. We encounter a distinct personality, an individual note and a restricted, but far from insignificant, technical accomplishment."
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON
POEMS. With Frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Pott 4to. $1.50. Fifth edition.
SISTER SONGS. An Offering to Two Sisters. With frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Pott 4to. Buckram. $1.50. Fourth edition.
NEW POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.
H. D. Traill in the Nineteenth Century: " I can hardly doubt that at least that minority who can recognize the essentials under the accidents of poetry, and who feel that it is to poetic Form only, and not to forms, that eternity belongs, will agree that, alike in wealth and dignity of imagination, in depth and subtlety of thought, and in magic and mastery of language a new poet of the first rank is to be welcomed in this author."
Coventry Patmore in the Fortnightly Reinew: "Profound thought and far-fetched splendor of imagery, and nirnble-witted discernment of those analogies which are the roots of the poet's language, abound, — qualities which ought to place him in the prominent ranks of fame."
THE WORK OF HERBERT TRENCH
DEIRDRE WED, AND OTHER POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.
The Westminster Gazette says: "Mr. Herbert Trench's little volume contains the best hundred pages of English verse which the younger school of the last two decades has produced. But it represents more than this. Grace of metre and scholarly expression have now become the birthright of the many minor bards. Mr. Trench takes his readers into a wider air; his best lines are touched with the spacious majesty of the Elizabethan singers; his imagery is not sensuous only; it is simple; and he can be passionate as well."
St. James's Gazette: " A notable poem. The first serious attempt of a modern poet to use the Irish material as the great masters have used the classics. . . . Admirably does the poetry reflect the elemental spirit and passion, breathing through legendary souls. Instinct with feeling for bold archaic grandeur."
THE WORKS OF WILLIAM WATSON The Collected Poems of William Watson. Designed cover. izmo. ;J52.5o. This volume includes the w^ork contained in the author's volumes, "Poems," ** Lachrymze Musarum," **Odes, and Other Poems," *'Thc Father of the Forest, and Other Poems," "The Year of Shame," and "The Hope of the World, and Other Poems," with the exception of a few poems excluded by the author. The LoTtdon Daily Chronicle says: "As we look through this collected edition of his work we feel confirmed in our belief that whatever his limitations, and they are not few, it is Mr. Watson's function and his glory to hand on, in this generation, tlie great classical tradition of English poetry. On the threshold of the twentieth century he reconciles and brings to a common denominator, as it were, the best qualities of eighteenth-century and of nineteenth-century verse. He is the heir no less of Dryden than of Tennyson 5 it is hard to say whether Keats or Pope has more potentially influenced him. There is significance in the fact that his favorite instrument, which he fingers with the utmost mastery, is the classic instrument of the English Muse — the iambic pentameter. Pregnant, resonant, memorable lines flow inexhaustibly from his pen ; and some of them, we venture to predict, will live with the language." The London Daily Ne^vs szys : "The swing and rush of the verse in the great themes; its epigram- matic felicity in others; its mastery in all the science of this highest of the high arts, will make the volume a model for the craftsman, an abiding delight to all who possess what, we fear, must still be called the acquired taste for fine things finely said." T/ie folloiving separate Volumes by Mr. William Watson may still be had : The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems. ^1.50. [^Third edition Poems. ^1.25. _Pifik edition Lachrymse Musarum. ^1.25. [Fourth edition The Eloping Angels. ^1.25. [Second edition Odes, and Other Poems. ^1.50. [Fifth edition The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems. ^1.25. [Fifth edition The Purple East. ^0.50. [Third edition The Year of Shame. ^i.OO. [Second edition The Hope of the World, and Other Poems. ^1.25. [Third edition Excursions in Criticism. ^1.50. [Second edition THE WORKS OF THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON JUBILEE GREETING AT SPITHEAD TO THE MEN OF GREATER BRITAIN. lamo. 50 cents. THE COMING OF LOVE: Rhona Boswell's Story, and Other Poems. i2mo. ^2.00. Second edition. NEW POEMS. l2mo. ^1.50 net. The Times : " His verses breathe the spirit of fraternity among all the people of the Empire." Literature: "In 'The Coming of Love' (which, though published fearlier, is a sequel to 'Aylwin') he has given us an unforgettable, we cannot but believe an enduring portrait ; one of the few immortal women of the imagination. Rhona Boswell comes again into ' Aylwin.' " The Star: "We can recall no study of the love-passion that can compare with 'Aylwin.' It declines to be classed. It is of no school. It owns no lineage, acknowledges no tradition. Its form is new, its ethical message is new." WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS. i2mo. I1.25. Mr. William Archer: " It is with Mr. Yeats that, so far as I know, the genuine spirit of Irsh antiquity and Irish folk-lore makes its first entrance into English verse. In Mr. Yeats we have an astonishing union of primitive imagination and feeling with cultivated and consciously artistic expression. The very spirit of the myth-makers and myth-believers is in him. His imaginative life finds its spontaneous, natural utterance in the language of the ' Keltic twilight.' This is no literary jargon to him, but his veritable mother tongue."
The BOOKS of SOME CLASSICS MATTHEW ARNOLD POEMS. All those contained in the Canterbury Series, with others. With an Introduction by Arthur C. Benson, and upwards of 70 illustrations and cover design, by Henry Ospovat. 8vo. Price ^2.50. ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER, M.A., OF MORWENSTOW. Edited, with a Prefatory Note and Bibliography, by Alfred Wallis, with a frontispiece portrait of the author, izmo. Price ^2.00. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY and ELIZABETH SHELLEY ORIGINAL POETRY. By Victor and Cazire (Percy Bysshe Shelley AND Elizabeth Shelley). Edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. Large 8vo. Price $1.50. This is a page-for-page reprint of the first volume of poems published by Shelley before he was eighteen. It was rigidly suppressed by him, owing to a fraud practised on him by the other contributor to the volume. Record of the title only remained ; a source of puzzled conjecture to all Shelley students, many of whom were disposed to doubt whether such a volume had really ever existed. The unique copy from which this reprint was made was discovered in 1889 in the posses- sion of a member of the family. The American edition consists of only 250 copies, of which but a few remain, FREDERICK TENNYSON POEMS OF THE DAY AND YEAR. By Frederick Tennyson, brother of the late laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, specially designed title-page, etc. i zmo. Price $1.50. SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS With fourteen illustradons and ornaments by Henry Ospovat. Square i6mo. Buckram, gilt top. Price ^1.25 net, Saturday Revieiv : **No one could desire an edition of the Sonnets more tastefully and charmingly got up than this." SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS With eleven illustrations and ornaments by Henry Ospovat. Square i6mo. Buckram, gilt top. Price $1.25 nsL The Literary ff^orld : "The excellent drawings, together with tasteful binding and good paper, make the v/ork a very suitable gift-book."
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A Series of famous Poems Illustrated. Under the General Editorship of F. B. MoNEY-CouTTS. Demy i6mo (5 1/2 x 1/2), gilt top. Bound in Cloth, price 50 cents net i Bound in Leather, price 75 cents net.
Vol. 1. Gray's Elegy, and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. With Twelve Illustrations by J. T. Friedenson.
Vol. II. The Statue and the Bust. By Robert Browning. With Nine Illustrations by Philip Connard.
Vol. III. Marpessa. By Stephen Phillips. With Seven Illustrations by Philip Connard.
Vol. IV. The Blessed Damozel. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Eight Illustrations by Percy Bulcock.
Vol. V. The Nut-Brown Maid. A New Version By F. B. Money-Coutts. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole.
Vol. VI. A Dream of Fair Women. By Alfred Tennyson. With Illustrations by Percy Bulcock.
Vol. VII. A Day Dream. By Alfred Tennyson. With Eight Illustrations by Amelia Bauerle.
Vol. VIII. A Ballade upon a Wedding. By Sir John Suckling. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole.
Vol. IX. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole.
Vol. X. The Rape of the Lock. By Alexander Pope. With Nine Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
Vol. XI. Christmas at the Mermaid. By Theodore Watts-Dunton. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole.
Vol. XII. Songs of Innocence. By William Blake. With Nine Illustrations by Geraldine Morris.
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THE LOVER'S LIBRARY
Edited by Frederic Chapman. Size 5 1/4 x 3 inches. Bound in Violet or Apple- Green Cloth, price 50 cents net ^ Bound in Violet or Apple-Green Leather, price 75 cents net.
Vol. I. The Love Poems of Shelley. Vol. II. The Love Poems of Browning. Vol. III. The Silence of Love. Vol. IV. The Love Poems of Tennyson. Vol. V. The Love Poems of Landor. Vol. VI. The Love Poems of E. B. Browning. Vol. VII. The Love Poems of Robert Burns. Vol. VIII. The Love Poems of Sir John Suckling. Vol. IX. The Love Poems of Herrick. Vol. X. The Love Poems of W. S. Blunt (Proteus).
Other Volumes in Preparation
It is sought to include in a group of compact little volumes the best Love Poems of the great British poets; and from, time to time a volume of prose, or a volume of modern verse which may be considered of sufficient importance, will be added to the Library.
The delicate decorations, on the pages, end-papers, and covers, make the little books dainty enough for small presents, and it is hoped that those who do not receive them as presents from others will seize the opportunity of making presents to themselves.
A LIST of the BODLEY HEAD EDITIONS of The Rubaiyatof Omar Khayyam EDWARD FITZGERALD'S RENDERING
THE RUBAIYAT of OMAR KHAYYAM.
Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, with an Introduction by F. B. Money-Coutts, and with twelve illustrations on Japanese Vellum from the pen of Herbert Cole. A sumptuous Edition de Luxe, bound in White Vellum, tied with art-green ribands. Only 100 copies. 8vo. Price $5.00 net.
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. A diminutive booklet version of the above edition, with nine illustrations by Herbert Cole. Being Volume IX. of the series of "Flowers of Parnassus." About 5 inches square. Green cloth, price 50 cents net. Green leather, price 75 cents net.
MRS. CADELL'S TRANSLATION THE RUBA'YAT of OMAR KHAYAM. Translated by Mrs. H. M. Cadell, with an Introduction by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. 12mo. Price $1.25. N. B, — This version may be looked upon as one aiming at accurate translation of the original Persian into English verse.
THE CORVO-NICOLAS VERSION
THE RUBAiYAT of UMAR KHAIYAm. Done into English from the French of J. B. Nicolas. By Frederick Baron Corvo, together with a Reprint of the French text. 12mo. Price $1.50 net.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE'S PARAPHRASE
RUBAIYAT of OMAR KHAYYAM. A Paraphrase from Various Translations. Printed by Will H. Bradley at the Wayside Press, and with cover-design also by Will H. Bradley.
A new edition of the above work, with fifty additional quatrains, bound in the same cover, with a difference, izmo. Price $ 1.50 net.
LUCRETIUS ON LIFE AND DEATH
In the Metre of FitzGerald's Omar Khayyam. To which are appended parallel passages from the original. By W. H. Mallock. With title-page and cover designed by A. K. Womrath. 12mo. Price $1.50.
Few philosophical poems in the English language have been more widely read than the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. There is a curious likeness between the philosophy of Omar and that of the Roman, Lucretius, who also expressed his philosophy in verse. Mr. Mallock's rendering of Lucretius, in the same metre as FitzGerald's Omar, presents a telling standard for comparison between the works of the Roman and the Persian poet-philosophers.
Mr. Money-Coutts in his preface to " The Rubaiyat": " Job is less known than Omar, and will, perhaps, soon be less known than Lucretius, now that Mr. Mallock has given us a transmutation of the Roman into the Rubaiyat metre of so smooth and honeyed a dignity that neither the learned nor the unlearned remain unattracted."
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