Poetry
RUDYARD KIPLING’S NEW POEMS
Rudyard Kipling. THE SEVEN SEAS. By Rudyard Kipling. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 6s.
‘The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their predecessors. Patriotism is the solid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has built the whole of his work.’—Times.
‘Full of passionate patriotism and the Imperial spirit.’—Yorkshire Post.
‘The Empire has found a singer; it is no depreciation of the songs to say that statesmen may have, one way or other, to take account of them.’—Manchester Guardian.
‘Animated through and through with indubitable genius.’—Daily Telegraph.
‘Packed with inspiration, with humour, with pathos.’—Daily Chronicle.
‘All the pride of empire, all the intoxication of power, all the ardour, the energy, the masterful strength and the wonderful endurance and death-scorning pluck which are the very bone and fibre and marrow of the British character are here.’—Daily Mail.
Rudyard Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And Other Verses. By Rudyard Kipling. Tenth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
‘Mr. Kipling’s verse is strong, vivid, full of character.... Unmistakable genius rings in every line.’—Times.
‘The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is?’—Pall Mall Gazette.
“Q.” POEMS AND BALLADS. By “Q.,” Author of ‘Green Bays,’ etc. Crown 8vo. Buckram. 3s. 6d.
‘His book will be read with interest by the most fastidious lovers of poetry, and it will please many who think they have no taste for poetry at all.’—Scotsman.
“Q.” THE GOLDEN POMP: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley, arranged by A. T. Quiller Couch. Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s.
‘A delightful volume: a really golden “Pomp.”’—Spectator.
“Q.” GREEN BAYS: Verses and Parodies. By “Q.,” Author of ‘Dead Man’s Rock,’ etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
‘The verses display a rare and versatile gift of parody, great command of metre, and a very pretty turn of humour.’—Times.
H. C. Beeching. LYRA SACRA: An Anthology of Sacred Verse. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A. Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s.
‘An anthology of high excellence.’—Athenæum.
‘A charming selection, which maintains a lofty standard of excellence.’—Times.
W. B. 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.
E. 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.’—Globe.
Ibsen. BRAND. A Drama by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by William Wilson. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
‘The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to “Faust.” 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.
F. 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.
‘A very happy conception happily carried out. These “Ballads of the Brave” are intended to suit the real tastes of boys, and will suit the taste of the great majority.’—Spectator.
‘The book is full of splendid things.’—World.
Lang and Craigie. THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by Andrew Lang and W. A. Craigie. With Portrait. Demy 8vo, gilt top. 6s.
This edition contains a carefully collated Text, numerous Notes, critical and textual, a critical and biographical Introduction, and a Glossary.
‘Among the editions in one volume, Mr. Andrew Lang’s will take the place of authority.’—Times.
‘To the general public the beauty of its type, and the fair proportions of its pages, as well as the excellent chronological arrangement of the poems, should make it acceptable enough. Mr. Lang and his publishers have certainly succeeded in producing an attractive popular edition of the poet, in which the brightly written biographical introduction is not the least notable feature.’—Glasgow Herald.