THE PHŒNIX LIBERTY
ONE dark December day, the text-books teach,
The English Commons set unbending names,
By the wan light of wavering candle-flames,
To their immortal Protest for Free Speech:
Stern signatories, who spared not to impeach
Mompesson and Mitchell of corrupted aims,
"And argue and debate," said peevish James,
"Publicly, matters far beyond their reach."
"O fiery popular spirits," re-create
Some sparkle of your ashes. Let us see
The Phœnix Liberty, that chirps by stealth
Through chinks and crannies of our shuttered state,
Bright as the sun and unabashed as he,
Cry through the casements of the commonwealth.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
"BREAD AND CIRCUSES"
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Some Opinions of the Press
"The best first book produced in many a year."—The New York Times.
"It is difficult to describe the effect they produce without seeming to use the language of exaggeration."—
The Westminster Gazette."There is not a piece in the engaging volume that does not make appeal."—The Daily Telegraph.
"A remarkable event in the world of women."—G. B. D., in The Queen.
"The large bulk of this small volume is a sheer delight."—E. H. L., in the Manchester Guardian.
"She has approached common things and great things with a quiet delicate ecstasy that is clean and refreshing."—J. M. B., in The Graphic.
"Mrs. Eden at once secures for herself a place by her first volume in the distinctively literary class of her day. It is the best volume of light verse that has been issued for many a year."—Clement Shorter, in The Sphere.
"I have read it a great many times myself and it has become part of my existence in a peculiar manner."—
G. K. Chesterton, in The New Witness."Poems ... which competent critics consider the noblest devotional poetry written since the death of Francis Thompson."—Joyce Kilmer, in the New York Independent.
"She can work innocence into art without damaging the dew on it: the very cunning of her verse seems indeed a kind of added candour—a sort of celestial mischief that proves the possession of the full freedom of heaven."—Dixon Scott, in the Liverpool Daily Courier.
RECENT VERSE
CHRIST IN HADES
By Stephen Phillips. With an Introduction by C. Lewis Hind. Illustrated by Stella Langdale.
Demy 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. (Uniform with "The Dream of Gerontius.")Daily News: "Mr. Lewis Hind has written a fascinating and amusing chapter of memories of the literary 'nineties."
CACKLES AND LAYS
RHYMES OF A HENWIFE. By Margaret Lavington.
With numerous Illustrations by Helen Urquhart.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.If Ann and Jane Taylor had lived in the twentieth century and taken to keeping poultry for profit in war time, they would probably have had a laudable desire to inculcate the principles and practice of hen-keeping among the young. But unless they had developed an unexpected sense of humour they wouldn't have produced anything like "Cackles and Lays," for while some of Margaret Lavington's rhymes are practical and sprightly, others are just delightfully whimsical and humorous.
POEMS OF WEST AND EAST
By V. Sackville-west (the Hon. Mrs. Harold Nicolson).
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.Morning Post: "These poems reveal a personality both charming and courageous. They have all been lived—not merely written."
THE RHYME GARDEN
By Marguerite Buller-allan. With Pictures in Black and White and Colour by the Author.
Crown 4to. 3s. 6d. net.An unconventional book for children in that it is illustrated in what seems at first sight a conventional childish manner, but behind the apparent crudity there is real art and colour of the kind that will appeal to all children and all grown-ups who love children.
HAY HARVEST and Other Poems
By Lucy Buxton.
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A HIGHLAND REGIMENT and Other Poems
By Lieut. E. A. Mackintosh, M.C. 3rd edition.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.Daily Graphic: "This is one of the most notable poetic harvests of the war."
WAR THE LIBERATOR and Other Pieces
By Lieut. E. a. Mackintosh, M.C., Author of "A Highland Regiment."
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MESSINES ET AUTRES POÈMES. Messines and Other Poems
By Emile Cammaerts. English version by Tita Brand Cammaerts.
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ON HEAVEN and Other Poems
By Ford Madox Hueffer.
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RETROGRESSION and Other Poems
By Sir William Watson.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.Daily News: "'Retrogressions' will revive a splendid reputation."
AN EVENING IN MY LIBRARY AMONG THE ENGLISH POETS
By the Hon. Stephen Coleridge.
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POEMS OF CAPTAIN BRIAN BROOKE
With a Foreword by M. P. Willcocks, and nine Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.Land and Water: "I cannot forbear the pleasure of quoting from a book that will soon be by the side of Lindsay Gordon's poems on the shelves of all those who love the poetry of out-of-doors."
THERE IS NO DEATH
Poems by the late Richard Dennys. With an Introduction by Captain Desmond Coke,
and a Photogravure Portrait of the Author.
Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.Globe: "This graceful verse is distinguished by its manly tone and vigorous quality."
THE DAY and Other Poems
By Henry Chappell. With an Introduction by Sir Herbert Warren, K.C.V.O.
Crown 8vo. Cloth (with a Portrait), 2s. 6d. net.Henry Chappell has long been widely known as the railway-porter poet of Bath, and many of his poems have been published in the press, and not a few set to music. His famous poem, "The Day," was printed in practically every newspaper in America. The present volume, however, constitutes the first publication of his work in a collected form.
OUR GIRLS IN WAR TIME
By Joyce Dennys. With Topical Verses by Hampden Gordon.
Crown 4to. 3s. 6d. net. 2nd Edition.This is a companion volume to "Our Hospital A B C."
Morning Post: "Once again these clever collaborators play up to the cheery souls on the Western Front, and their new consignment of the munitions of merriment will be even more sought after than the first volume. This Christmas the Dennys Girl will become as well established as the Gibson Girl."
ODES TO TRIFLES, and Other War Rhymes
Poems by R. M. Eassie (Sergt. 5th Canadian Infantry)
Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.The Times: "Humorous verse, by a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, in which every stanza gets well home; written with a refreshing air of conviction and a real wit which scintillates the more sharply because not a word of it could be spared."
FLOWER-NAME FANCIES
Designed and Written by Guy Pierre Fauconnet.
English Rhymes by Hampden Gordon.
Crown 4to. 2s. 6d. net.A charming series of drawings illustrating in a delightfully quaint and delicate manner the popular nicknames of many flowers, both in French and English.
Each drawing is accompanied by an explanation as quaint as itself, in French and English, the latter in rhyme by Hampden Gordon.
JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.