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“ Among the fag-ends, spit and sawdust.
'Saul Kane,' she said, 'when next you drink,
Do me the gentleness to think
That every drop of drink accursed
Makes Christ within you die of thirst,
That every dirty word you say
Is one more flint upon His way,
Another thorn about His head,
Another mock by where He tread,
Another nail, another cross. ”

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“ I learned with what a rosy feeling
Good ale makes floors seem like the ceiling,
And how the moon gives shiny light
To lads as roll home singing by't.
My blood did leap, my flesh did revel,
Saul Kane was tokened to the devil. ”

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“ Raging in the crowd's pursuits,
Flinging stones at all the Stephens,
Standing firm with all the evens,
Making hell for all the odd,
All the lonely ones of God,
Those poor lonely ones who find
Dogs more mild than human kind. ”

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“ Third Impression
"Mr Masefield is no common realist, but universalizes his tragedy in the grand manner.... We are convinced that he is writing truly of human nature, which is the vital thing.... The last few stanzas show us pastoral poetry in the very perfection of simplicity."--Spectator.
"In 'The Widow in the Bye Street' all Mr Masefield's passionate love of loveliness is utterly fused with the violent and unlovely story, which glows with an inner harmony. The poem, it is true, ends on a note of idyllism which recalls Theocritus ”

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“ There'll be no friend to watch the clock for you
And no convenient thumb to crock for you,
And I'll take care, with much delight,
You'll get what you'd a got to-night;
That puts my meaning clear, I guess,
Now get to hell; I want to dress.'
I dressed. ”

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“ Hell's flames are loose and you shall burn.'
At that I leaped and screamed and ran,
I heard their cries go 'Catch him, man.'
'Who was it?' 'Down him.' 'Out him, Ern.
'Duck him at pump, we'll see who'll burn.'
A policeman clutched, a fireman clutched,
A dozen others snatched and touched.
'By God, he's stripped down to his buff.'
'By God, we'll make him warm enough.'
'After him.' 'Catch him,' 'Out him,' 'Scrob him.
'We'll give him hell.' 'By God, we'll mob him.'
'We'll duck him, scrout him, flog him, fratch him. ”

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“ Superroyal 8vo, profusely illustrated in Colour, Gravure and Line. Price 30s. net.
"Mr Stobart does a real service when he gives the reading but non-expert public this fine volume, embodying the latest results of research, blending them, too, into as agreeable a narrative as we have met with for a long while."--Guardian.
THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME. By J. C. STOBART, M.A. (Uniform with the above.) 30s. net.
"It is a book which must be read; it is a book which should be in the library of every school and every college ... the illustrations have been quite superbly reproduced. ”

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“ Boyhood. By MARTIN ANDERSON NEXO. Translated from the Danish by JESSIE MUIR. Crown 8vo. 6s.
"Novel-readers in search of something out of the common will be grateful to the publishers and the very competent translator.... The detailed realism of the life at the farm is presented firmly and vividly."--Spectator.
THE THIRD MISS SYMONS. By F. M. MAYOR. With a Preface by JOHN MASEFIELD. Impl. 16mo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. net.
"Mr Masefield has formed a high opinion of Miss Mayor's work, but nothing beyond what her art deserves."--Glasgow Herald. ”

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“ The characters are intensely alive, the situations are handled by a master hand, and the whole play is pregnant with that high and solemn pathos which is the gift of the born writer of tragedies."--Morning Post.
AUTUMN, 1913
NEW EDITION
EDINBURGH REVISITED. By JAMES BONE. Extra Crown 8vo, with 50 Drawings by HANSLIP FLETCHER. Cloth gilt, 5s. net. Original Edition, with Etched Frontispiece, 16 Collotypes, and over 50 Line Drawings by HANSLIP FLETCHER, Demy 4to, 264 pages, £1, 1s. net; Edition de Luxe, limited to 30 signed copies, £3, 3s. each. ”

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“ Messrs Sidgwick & Jackson are to be very cordially congratulated on having published such an excellent book."--Observer.
"THE CLASSICS OF THE SEA"
SHIPS AND WAYS OF OTHER DAYS. By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. With a Coloured Frontispiece by CHARLES DIXON, and 120 Illustrations.
SAILING SHIPS AND THEIR STORY. By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. With a Coloured Frontispiece by CHARLES DIXON, and over 130 Illustrations.
STEAM-SHIPS AND THEIR STORY. By R. A. FLETCHER. With a Coloured Frontispiece and 150 Illustrations. The foregoing three volumes, Extra Royal 8vo, in designed cover, cloth gilt, l6s. net each. ”

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“ Inevitably the story has worked towards this culmination."--Bookman.
THE TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT.
A Play in Three Acts. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net. Wrappers, 1s. 6d. net. Third Impression
"In this Roman tragedy, while we admire its closely knit structure, dramatic effectiveness, and atmosphere of reality ... the warmth and colour of the diction are the most notable things.... He knows the art of phrasing; he has the instinct for and by them."--Athaeneum.
"He has written a great tragedy.... ”

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“ Ninety-one Photographs from life in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco, taken before it was destroyed in the great disaster of 1906.
THE RUSSIAN BALLET. By ELLEN TERRY. With Drawings by PAMELA COLMAN SMITH. Demy 4to, cloth, 3s. 6d. net.
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POEMS. By R. C. PHILLIMORE. With a Preface by JOHN MASEFIELD. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. net.
IRISH POEMS. By KATHARINE TYNAN. Square 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net.
GULLIVER'S VOYAGES to Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Illustrated by F. A. STAYNES. With 8 Colour Plates and over 80 Drawings in the Text, printed in Two Colours throughout ”

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“ THE ORANGE CAT and Other Verses. By FFRIDA WOLFE. Illustrated by P. A. STAYNES. Demy 4to, picture boards, in colour throughout, 1s. 6d.
ROUNDABOUT WAYS. By FFRIDA WOLFE. Illustrated by P. A. STAYNES. Demy 4to., cloth, in colour throughout, 3s. 6d.
THE COCKATOO: a Story of Public School Life and Adventure. By MAX BITTENBERG. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s.
UNDINE. By F. DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE; translated by EDMUND GOSSE. With a Photogravure Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. net. ”

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“ THE TRUE OPHELIA: and other Stories of Shakespeare's Women. By AN ACTRESS. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. net.
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THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE: A Survey of Hellenic Culture. By J. C. STOBART, M.A., Late Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Cambridge. ”

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“ Crown 8vo, wrappers, 6d. net each.
SIDGWICK & JACKSON'S MODERN DRAMA
"Messrs Sidgwick & Jackson are choosing their plays excellently."--Saturday Review.
THREE PLAYS BY GRANVILLE BARKER: "The Marrying of Ann Leete," "The Voysey Inheritance," and "Waste." In one Vol., 5s. net; singly, cloth, 2s. net; paper wrappers, 1s. 6d. net. ”

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“ Spring in my heart agen
That I may flower to men.
GREAT HAMPDEN. June 1911.
NOTE
'The Everlasting Mercy' first appeared in The English Review for October 1911. I thank the Editor and Proprietors of that paper for permitting me to reprint it here. The persons and events described in the poem are entirely imaginary, and no reference is made or intended to any living person.
JOHN MASEFIELD.
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
FROM SIDGWICK & JACKSON'S LIST
JOHN MASEFIELD
THE WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET.
Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net. ”

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