’An anthology of high excellence.’—Athenaeum.
’A charming selection, which maintains a lofty standard of excellence.’—Times.
YEATS. AN ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH VERSE. Edited by W.B. YEATS. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
’An attractive and catholic selection.’—Times.
’It is edited by the most original and most accomplished of modern Irish poets, and against his editing but a single objection can be brought, namely, that it excludes from the collection his own delicate lyrics.’—Saturday Review.
MACKAY. A SONG OF THE SEA: MY LADY OF DREAMS, AND OTHER POEMS. By ERIC MACKAY, Author of ‘The Love Letters of a Violinist.’ Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, gilt top, 5s.
’Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric. He has a keen sense of rhythm and of general balance; his verse is excellently sonorous, and would lend itself admirably to elocutionary art.... Its main merit is its “long resounding march and energy divine.” Mr. Mackay is full of enthusiasm, and for the right things. His new book is as healthful as it is eloquent.’—Globe.
’Throughout the book the poetic workmanship is fine.’—Scotsman.
JANE BARLOW. THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE, translated by JANE BARLOW, Author of ‘Irish Idylls,’ and pictured by F.D. BEDFORD. Small 4to. 6s. net.
IBSEN. BRAND. A Drama by HENRIK IBSEN. Translated by WILLIAM WILSON. Crown 8vo. Second Edition. 3s. 6d.
’The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to “Faust.” “Brand” will have an astonishing interest for Englishmen. It is in the same set with “Agamemnon,” with “Lear,” with the literature that we now instinctively regard as high and holy.’—Daily Chronicle.
“A.G.” VERSES TO ORDER. By “A.G.” Cr. 8vo. 2s. 6d net.
A small volume of verse by a writer whose initials are well known to Oxford men.
’A capital specimen of light academic poetry. These verses are very bright and engaging, easy and sufficiently witty.—St. James’s Gazette.
Hosken. VERSES BY THE WAY. By J.D. HOSKEN. Crown 8vo. 5s.
Gale. CRICKET SONGS. By NORMAN GALE. Crown 8vo. Linen. 2s. 6d.
Also a limited edition on hand-made paper. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.
’As healthy as they are spirited, and ought to have a great success.’—Times.
’Simple, manly, and humorous. Every cricketer should buy the book.’—Westminster Gazette.
’Cricket has never known such a singer.’—Cricket.
Langbridge. BALLADS OF THE BRAVE: Poems of Chivalry, Enterprise, Courage, and Constancy, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Edited, with Notes, by Rev. F. LANGBRIDGE. Crown 8vo. Buckram 3s. 6d. School Edition, 2s. 6d.