Omar Khayyam

“ THE POEMS OF ARTHUR SYMONS, with photogravure portrait of the author as frontis- piece. In two volumes. 12mo. $3.50 wer.
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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 J and from, time to time a volume of prose, or a volume of modern verse which may be con- sidered 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The principal writers on Art are contributors to its pages. Many original illustradons reproduced in the best possible manner are to be found in every number. Color supplements of artistic valje are regularly presented. Everyone interested in Art, professionally or otherwise, should read it. ”

“ 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. ”

“ With frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Pott 4to. Buckram. $1.50. Fourth edition.
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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." ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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." ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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." THE BOOKS OF ALICE MEYNELL LATER POEMS. l2mo. ^i.oo n^.'. Uniform •witA *' 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. l2mo. ^1.25. FourtA edition. Mr. ”