POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.
Allingham.—LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND or, the New Landlord. By William Allingham. New and Cheaper Issue, with a Preface. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d.
In the new Preface, the state of Ireland, with special reference to the Church measure, is discussed.
“It is vital with the national character. . . . It has something of Pope’s point and Goldsmith’s simplicity, touched to a more modern issue.”—Athenæum.
Arnold (Matthew).—POEMS. By Matthew Arnold. Two vols. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth. 12s. Also sold separately at 6s. each.
Volume I contains Narrative and Elegiac Poems; Volume II. Dramatic and Lyric Poems. The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the Poems, and the New Poems.
NEW POEMS. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d.
In this volume will be found “Empedocles on Etna:” “Thyrsis” (written in commemoration of the late Professor Clough); “Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön;” “Heine’s Grave;” “Obermann once more.” All these poems are also included in the Edition (two vols.) above-mentioned.
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. New Edition, with Additions. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Contents:—Preface; The Function of Criticism at the present time; The Literary Influence of Academies; Maurice de Guerin; Eugenie de Guerin; Heinrich Heine; Pagan and Mediæval Religious Sentiment; Joubert; Spinoza and the Bible; Marcus Aurelius.
ASPROMONTE, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. cloth extra. 4s. 6d.
Contents:—Poems for Italy; Dramatic Lyrics; Miscellaneous.
“Uncommon lyrical power and deep poetic feeling.”—Literary Churchman.
Barnes (Rev. W.).—POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN COMMON ENGLISH. By the Rev. W. Barnes, Author of “Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.” Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“In a high degree pleasant and novel. The book is by no means one which the lovers of descriptive poetry can afford to lose.”—Athenæum.
Bell.—ROMANCES AND MINOR POEMS. By Henry Glassford Bell. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“Full of life and genius.”—Court Circular.
Besant.—STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By Walter Besant, M.A. Crown. 8vo. 8s. 6d.
A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins with the “siècle de Louis Quatorze;” any previous literature being for the most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris; was fostered by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First; that gave a crowd of versifiers to France, enriched, strengthened, developed, and fixed the French language, and prepared the way for Corneille and for Racine. The present work aims to afford information and direction touching the early efforts of France in poetical literature.
“In one moderately sized volume he has contrived to introduce us to the very best, if not to all of the early French poets.”—Athenæum.
Bradshaw.—AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE STATE OF CHAUCER’S WORKS, AS THEY WERE LEFT AT HIS DEATH. With some Notes of their Subsequent History. By Henry Bradshaw, of King’s College, and the University Library, Cambridge.In the Press.
Brimley.—ESSAYS BY THE LATE GEORGE BRIMLEY, M.A. Edited by the Rev. W. G. Clark, M.A. With Portrait. Cheaper Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Essays on literary topics, such as Tennyson’s “Poems,” Carlyle’s “Life of Stirling,” “Bleak House,” &c., reprinted from Fraser, the Spectator, and like periodicals.
Broome.—THE STRANGER OF SERIPHOS. A Dramatic Poem. By Frederick Napier Broome. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
Founded on the Greek legend of Danae and Perseus.
“Grace and beauty of expression are Mr. Broome’s characteristics; and these qualities are displayed in many passages.”—Athenæum.
Church (A. J.).—HORÆ TENNYSONIANÆ, Sive Eclogæ e Tennysono Latine redditæ. Cura A. J. Church, A.M. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Latin versions of Selections from Tennyson. Among the authors are the Editor, the late Professor Conington, Professor Seeley, Dr. Hessey, Mr. Kebbel, and other gentlemen.
Clough (Arthur Hugh).—THE POEMS AND PROSE REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. With a Selection from his Letters and a Memoir. Edited by his Wife. With Portrait. Two vols. crown 8vo. 21s. Or Poems separately, as below.
The late Professor Clough is well known as a graceful, tender poet, and as the scholarly translator of Plutarch. The letters possess high interest, not biographical only, but literary—discussing, as they do, the most important questions of the time, always in a genial spirit. The “Remains” include papers on “Retrenchment at Oxford;” on Professor F. W. Newman’s book “The Soul;” on Wordsworth; on the Formation of Classical English; on some Modern Poems (Matthew Arnold and the late Alexander Smith), &c. &c.
THE POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough.”—Fraser’s Magazine.
Dante.—DANTE’S COMEDY, THE HELL. Translated by W. M. Rossetti. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 5s.
“The aim of this translation of Dante may be summed up in one word—Literality. . . . To follow Dante sentence for sentence, line for line, word for word—neither more nor less—has been my strenuous endeavour.”—Author’s Preface.
De Vere.—THE INFANT BRIDAL, and other Poems. By Aubrey de Vere. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“Mr. De Vere has taken his place among the poets of the day. Pure and tender feeling, and that polished restraint of style which is called classical, are the charms of the volume.”—Spectator.
Doyle (Sir F. H.).—Works by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford:—
THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 7s.
“Good wine needs no bush, nor good verse a preface; and Sir Francis Doyle’s verses run bright and clear, and smack of a classic vintage. . . . His chief characteristic, as it is his greatest charm, is the simple manliness which gives force to all he writes. It is a characteristic in these days rare enough.”—Examiner.
LECTURES ON POETRY, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1868. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Three Lectures:—(1) Inaugural; (2) Provincial Poetry; (3) Dr. Newman’s “Dream of Gerontius.”
“Full of thoughtful discrimination and fine insight: the lecture on ‘Provincial Poetry’ seems to us singularly true, eloquent, and instructive.”—Spectator.
Evans.—BROTHER FABIAN’S MANUSCRIPT, AND OTHER POEMS. By Sebastian Evans. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 6s.
“In this volume we have full assurance that he has ‘the vision and the faculty divine.’ . . . Clever and full of kindly humour.”—Globe.
Furnivall.—LE MORTE D’ARTHUR. Edited from the Harleian M.S. 2252, in the British Museum. By F. J. Furnivall, M.A. With Essay by the late Herbert Coleridge. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Looking to the interest shown by so many thousands in Mr. Tennyson’s Arthurian poems, the editor and publishers have thought that the old version would possess considerable interest. It is a reprint of the celebrated Harleian copy; and is accompanied by index and glossary.
Garnett.—IDYLLS AND EPIGRAMS. Chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By Richard Garnett. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“A charming little book. For English readers, Mr. Garnett’s translations will open a new world of thought.”—Westminster Review.
GUESSES AT TRUTH. By Two Brothers. With Vignette, Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Memoir. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“The following year was memorable for the commencement of the ‘Guesses at Truth.’ He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the ‘Pensées’ of Pascal, and the ‘Caractères’ of La Bruyère—agreed to utter themselves in this form, and the book appeared, anonymously, in two volumes, in 1827.”—Memoir.
Hamerton.—A PAINTER’S CAMP. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Second Edition, revised. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Book I. In England; Book II. In Scotland; Book III. In France. This is the story of an Artist’s encampments and adventures. The headings of a few chapters may serve to convey a notion of the character of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors; the Author his own Housekeeper and Cook; Tents and Boats for the Highlands; The Author encamps on an uninhabited Island; A Lake Voyage; A Gipsy Journey to Glen Coe; Concerning Moonlight and Old Castles; A little French City; A Farm in the Autunois, &c. &c.
“His pages sparkle with many turns of expression, not a few well-told anecdotes, and many observations which are the fruit of attentive study and wise reflection on the complicated phenomena of human life, as well as of unconscious nature.”—Westminster Review.
ETCHING AND ETCHERS. A Treatise Critical and Practical. By P. G. Hamerton. With Original Plates by Rembrandt, Callot, Dujardin, Paul Potter, &c. Royal 8vo. Half morocco. 31s. 6d.
“It is a work of which author, printer, and publisher may alike feel proud. It is a work, too, of which none but a genuine artist could by possibility have been the author.”—Saturday Review.
Herschel.—THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Translated into English Hexameters. By Sir John Herschel, Bart. 8vo. 18s.
A version of the Iliad in English Hexameters. The question of Homeric translation is fully discussed in the Preface.
“It is admirable, not only for many intrinsic merits, but as a great man’s tribute to Genius.”—Illustrated London News.
HIATUS: the Void in Modern Education. Its Cause and Antidote. By Outis. 8vo. 8s. 6d.
The main object of this Essay is to point out how the emotional element which underlies the Fine Arts is disregarded and undeveloped at this time so far as (despite a pretence at filling it up) to constitute an Educational Hiatus.
Huxley (Professor).—LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS. By T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S. Second and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Fourteen discourses on the following subjects:—On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge; Emancipation—Black and White; A Liberal Education, and where to find it; Scientific Education; on the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences; on the Study of Zoology; on the Physical Basis of Life; the Scientific Aspects of Positivism; on a Piece of Chalk; Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life; Geological Reform; the Origin of Species; Criticisms on the “Origin of Species;” on Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth.”
ESSAYS SELECTED FROM LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 2s.
Whilst publishing a second edition of his Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, Professor Huxley has, at the suggestion of many friends, issued in a cheap and popular form the selection we are now noticing. It includes the following essays:—(1) On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge. (2) A Liberal Education, and where to find it. (3) Scientific Education, notes of an after-dinner speech. (4) On the Physical Basis of Life. (5) The Scientific Aspects of Positivism. (6) On Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason Rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth.”
Kennedy.—LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Collected and Narrated by Patrick Kennedy. Crown 8vo. With Two Illustrations. 7s. 6d.
“A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, in which those who are familiar with Mr. Croker’s, and other selections of the same kind, will find much that is fresh, and full of the peculiar vivacity and humour, and sometimes even of the ideal beauty, of the true Celtic Legend.”—Spectator.
Kingsley (Canon).—See also “Historic Section,” “Works Of Fiction,” and “Philosophy;” also “Juvenile Books,” and “Theology.”
THE SAINTS’ TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary. By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. With a Preface by the Rev. F. D. Maurice. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
ANDROMEDA, AND OTHER POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
PHAETHON: or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 2s.
Lowell (Professor).—AMONG MY BOOKS. Six Essays. By James Russell Lowell, M.A., Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Six Essays: Dryden; Witchcraft; Shakespeare Once More; New England Two Centuries ago; Lessing; Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.
UNDER THE WILLOWS, AND OTHER POEMS. By James Russell Lowell. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“Under the Willows is one of the most admirable bits of idyllic work, short as it is, or perhaps because it is short, that have been done in our generation.”—Saturday Review.
Masson (Professor).—ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL. Chiefly on the British Poets. By David Masson, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. 12s. 6d.
“Distinguished by a remarkable power of analysis, a clear statement of the actual facts on which speculation is based, and an appropriate beauty of language. These essays should be popular with serious men.”—Athenæum.
BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES. Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“Valuable for its lucid analysis of fundamental principles, its breadth of view, and sustained animation of style.”—Spectator.
MRS. JERNINGHAM’S JOURNAL. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A Poem of the boudoir or domestic class, purporting to be the journal of a newly-married lady.
“One quality in the piece, sufficient of itself to claim a moment’s attention, is that it is unique—original, indeed, is not too strong a word—in the manner of its conception and execution.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Mistral (F.).—MIRELLE: a Pastoral Epic of Provence. Translated by H. Crichton. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“This is a capital translation of the elegant and richly-coloured pastoral epic poem of M. Mistral which, in 1859, he dedicated in enthusiastic terms to Lamartine. . . . It would be hard to overpraise the sweetness and pleasing freshness of this charming epic.”—Athenæum.
Myers (Ernest).—THE PURITANS. By Ernest Myers. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth. 2s. 6d.
“It is not too much to call it a really grand poem, stately and dignified, and showing not only a high poetic mind, but also great power over poetic expression.”—Literary Churchman.
Myers (F. W. H.).—Poems. By F. W. H. Myers. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d. Containing “St. PAUL,” “St. JOHN,” and other Poems.
“St. Paul stands without a rival as the noblest religious poem which has been written in an age which beyond any other has been prolific in this class of poetry. The sublimest conceptions are expressed in language which for richness, taste, and purity, we have never seen excelled.”—John Bull.
Nettleship.—ESSAYS ON ROBERT BROWNING’S POETRY. By John T. Nettleship. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d.
Noel.—BEATRICE, AND OTHER POEMS. By the Hon. Roden Noel. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“Beatrice is in many respects a noble poem; it displays a splendour of landscape painting, a strong definite precision of highly-coloured description, which has not often been surpassed.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Norton.—THE LADY OF LA GARAYE. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. With Vignette and Frontispiece. Sixth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
“There is no lack of vigour, no faltering of power, plenty of passion, much bright description, much musical verse. . . . Full of thoughts well-expressed, and may be classed among her best works.”—Times.
Orwell.—THE BISHOP’S WALK AND THE BISHOP’S TIMES. Poems on the days of Archbishop Leighton and the Scottish Covenant. By Orwell. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“Pure taste and faultless precision of language, the fruits of deep thought, insight into human nature, and lively sympathy.”—Nonconformist.
Palgrave (Francis T.).—ESSAYS ON ART. By Francis Turner Palgrave, M.A., late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Mulready—Dyce—Holman Hunt—Herbert—Poetry, Prose, and Sensationalism in Art—Sculpture in England—The Albert Cross, &c.
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS AND SONGS. Edited by F. T. Palgrave. Gem Edition. With Vignette Title by Jeens. 3s. 6d.
“For minute elegance no volume could possibly excel the ‘Gem Edition.’”—Scotsman.
ORIGINAL HYMNS. By F. T. Palgrave. Third Edition, enlarged, 18mo. 1s. 6d.
LYRICAL POEMS. By F. T. Palgrave. [Nearly ready.
Patmore.—Works by Coventry Patmore:—
THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.
Book I. The Betrothal; Book II. The Espousals; Book III. Faithful for Ever. With Tamerton Church Tower. Two vols. Fcap. 8vo. 12s.
*** A New and Cheap Edition in one vol. 18mo., beautifully printed on toned paper, price 2s. 6d.
THE VICTORIES OF LOVE. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
“The intrinsic merit of his poem will secure it a permanent place in literature. . . . Mr. Patmore has fully earned a place in the catalogue of poets by the finished idealization of domestic life.”—Saturday Review.
Pember (E. H.).—THE TRAGEDY OF LESBOS. A Dramatic Poem. By E. H Pember. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
Founded upon the story of Sappho.
Richardson.—THE ILIAD OF THE EAST. A Selection of Legends drawn from Valmiki’s Sanskrit Poem “The Ramayana.” By Frederika Richardson. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“A charming volume which at once enmeshes the reader in its snares.”—Athenæum.
Rhoades (James).—POEMS. By James Rhoades. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
Poems and Sonnets. Contents:—Ode to Harmony; To the Spirit of Unrest; Ode to Winter; The Tunnel; To the Spirit of Beauty; Song of a Leaf; By the Rotha; An Old Orchard; Love and Rest; The Flowers Surprised; On the Death of Artemus Ward; The Two Paths; The Ballad of Little Maisie; Sonnets.
Rossetti.—Works by Christina Rossetti:—
GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by D. G. Rossetti. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“She handles her little marvel with that rare poetic discrimination which neither exhausts it of its simple wonders by pushing symbolism too far, nor keeps those wonders in the merely fabulous and capricious stage. In fact she has produced a true children’s poem, which is far more delightful to the mature than to children, though it would be delightful to all.”—Spectator.
THE PRINCE’S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by D. G. Rossetti. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“Miss Rossetti’s poems are of the kind which recalls Shelley’s definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. . . . They are like the piping of a bird on the spray in the sunshine, or the quaint singing with which a child amuses itself when it forgets that anybody is listening.”—Saturday Review.
Rossetti (W. M.).—DANTE’S HELL. See “Dante.”
FINE ART, chiefly Contemporary. By William M. Rossetti. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
This volume consists of Criticism on Contemporary Art, reprinted from Fraser, The Saturday Review, The Pall Mall Gazette, and other publications.
Roby.—STORY OF A HOUSEHOLD, AND OTHER POEMS. By Mary K. Roby. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
Seeley (Professor).—LECTURES AND ESSAYS. By J. R. Seeley, M.A. Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Contents:—Roman Imperialism: 1. The Great Roman Revolution; 2. The Proximate cause of the Fall of the Roman Empire; 3. The Later Empire.—Milton’s Political Opinions—Milton’s Poetry—Elementary Principles in Art—Liberal Education in Universities—English in Schools—The Church as a Teacher of Morality—The Teaching of Politics: an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge.
Shairp (Principal).—KILMAHOE, a Highland Pastoral, with other Poems. By John Campbell Shairp. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“Kilmahoe is a Highland Pastoral, redolent of the warm soft air of the Western Lochs and Moors, sketched out with remarkable grace and picturesqueness.”—Saturday Review.
Smith.—Works by Alexander Smith:—
A LIFE DRAMA, AND OTHER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
CITY POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
EDWIN OF DEIRA. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“A poem which is marked by the strength, sustained sweetness, and compact texture of real life.”—North British Review.
Smith.—POEMS. By Catherine Barnard Smith. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“Wealthy in feeling, meaning, finish, and grace; not without passion, which is suppressed, but the keener for that.”—Athenæum.
Smith (Rev. Walter).—HYMNS OF CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. By the Rev. Walter C. Smith, M.A. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
“These are among the sweetest sacred poems we have read for a long time. With no profuse imagery, expressing a range of feeling and expression by no means uncommon, they are true and elevated, and their pathos is profound and simple.”—Nonconformist.
Stratford de Redcliffe (Viscount).—SHADOWS OF THE PAST, in Verse. By Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
“The vigorous words of one who has acted vigorously. They combine the fervour of politicians and poet.”—Guardian.
Trench.—Works by R. Chenevix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. See also Sections “Philosophy,” “Theology,” &c.
POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
ELEGIAC POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
CALDERON’S LIFE’S A DREAM: The Great Theatre of the World. With an Essay on his Life and Genius. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by R. C. Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 5s. 6d.
This volume is called a “Household Book,” by this name implying that it is a book for all—that there is nothing in it to prevent it from being confidently placed in the hands of every member of the household. Specimens of all classes of poetry are given, including selections from living authors. The Editor has aimed to produce a book “which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary, might yet find room for in his trunk, and the traveller in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one.”
“The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful volume an important gift on the whole English-speaking population of the world.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
SACRED LATIN POETRY, Chiefly Lyrical. Selected and arranged for Use. Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. Fcap. 8vo. 7s.
“The aim of the present volume is to offer to members of our English Church a collection of the best sacred Latin poetry, such as they shall be able entirely and heartily to accept and approve—a collection, that is, in which they shall not be evermore liable to be offended, and do have the current of their sympathies checked, by coming upon that which, however beautiful as poetry, out of higher respects they must reject and condemn—in which, too, they shall not fear that snares are being laid for them, to entangle them unawares in admiration for aught which is inconsistent with their faith and fealty to their own spiritual mother.”—Preface.
Turner.—SONNETS. By the Rev. Charles Tennyson Turner. Dedicated to his brother, the Poet Laureate. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
“The Sonnets are dedicated to Mr. Tennyson by his brother, and have, independently of their merits, an interest of association. They both love to write in simple expressive Saxon; both love to touch their imagery in epithets rather than in formal similes; both have a delicate perception of rhythmical movement, and thus Mr. Turner has occasional lines which, for phrase and music, might be ascribed to his brother . . . He knows the haunts of the wild rose, the shady nooks where light quivers through the leaves, the ruralities, in short, of the land of imagination.”—Athenæum.
SMALL TABLEAUX. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.
“These brief poems have not only a peculiar kind of interest for the student of English poetry, but are intrinsically delightful, and will reward a careful and frequent perusal. Full of naïvete, piety, love, and knowledge of natural objects, and each expressing a single and generally a simple subject by means of minute and original pictorial touches, these sonnets have a place of their own.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Vittoria Colonna.—LIFE AND POEMS. By Mrs. Henry Roscoe. Crown 8vo. 9s.
The life of Vittoria Colonna, the celebrated Marchesa di Pescara, has received but cursory notice from any English writer, though in every history of Italy her name is mentioned with great honour among the poets of the sixteenth century. “In three hundred and fifty years,” says her biographer, Visconti, “there has been no other Italian lady who can be compared to her.”
“It is written with good taste, with quick and intelligent sympathy, occasionally with a real freshness and charm of style.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Webster.—Works by Augusta Webster:—
“If Mrs. Webster only remains true to herself, she will assuredly take a higher rank as a poet than any woman has yet done.”—Westminster Review.
DRAMATIC STUDIES. Extra fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“A volume as strongly marked by perfect taste as by poetic power.”—Nonconformist.
PROMETHEUS BOUND OF ÆSCHYLUS. Literally translated into English Verse. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“Closeness and simplicity combined with literary skill.”—Athenæum.
“Mrs. Webster’s ‘Dramatic Studies’ and ‘Translation of Prometheus’ have won for her an honourable place among our female poets. She writes with remarkable vigour and dramatic realization, and bids fair to be the most successful claimant of Mrs. Browning’s mantle.”—British Quarterly Review.
MEDEA OF EURIPIDES. Literally translated into English Verse. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“Mrs. Webster’s translation surpasses our utmost expectations. It is a photograph of the original without any of that harshness which so often accompanies a photograph.”—Westminster Review.
A WOMAN SOLD, AND OTHER POEMS. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“Mrs. Webster has shown us that she is able to draw admirably from the life; that she can observe with subtlety, and render her observations with delicacy; that she can impersonate complex conceptions, and venture into which few living writers can follow her.”—Guardian.
PORTRAITS. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
“Mrs. Webster’s poems exhibit simplicity and tenderness . . . her taste is perfect. . . . This simplicity is combined with a subtlety of thought, feeling, and observation which demand that attention which only real lovers of poetry are apt to bestow. . . . If she only remains true to herself she will most assuredly take a higher rank as a poet than any woman has yet done.”—Westminster Review.
“With this volume before us it would be hard to deny her the proud position of the first living English poetess.”—Examiner.
Woodward (B. B., F.S.A.).—SPECIMENS OF THE DRAWINGS OF TEN MASTERS, from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. With Descriptive Text by the late B. B. Woodward, B.A., F.S.A., Librarian to the Queen, and Keeper of Prints and Drawings. Illustrated by Twenty Autotypes by Edwards and Kidd. In 4to. handsomely bound, price 25s.
This volume contains facsimiles of the works of Michael Angelo, Perugino, Raphael, Julio Romano, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Paul Veronese, Poussin, Albert Dürer, Holbein, executed by the Autotype (Carbon) process, which may be accepted as, so far, perfect representations of the originals. In most cases some reduction in size was necessary, and then the dimensions of the drawing itself have been given. Brief biographical memoranda of the life of each master are inserted, solely to prevent the need of reference to other works.
Woolner.—MY BEAUTIFUL LADY. By Thomas Woolner. With a Vignette by Arthur Hughes. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
“It is clearly the product of no idle hour, but a highly-conceived and faithfully-executed task, self-imposed, and prompted by that inward yearning to utter great thoughts, and a wealth of passionate feeling which is poetic genius. No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole.”—Globe.
WORDS FROM THE POETS. Selected by the Editor of “Rays of Sunlight.” With a Vignette and Frontispiece. 18mo. limp., 1s.
Wyatt (Sir M. Digby).—FINE ART: a Sketch of its History, Theory, Practice, and application to Industry. A Course of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. By Sir M. Digby Wyatt, M. A. Slade Professor of Fine Art. 8vo. 10s. 6d.