EYES OF YOUTH


A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum—Shane

Leslie—Viola Meynell—Ruth Lindsay—

Hugh Austin—Judith Lytton—Olivia

Meynell—Maurice Healy—Monica

Saleeby—Francis Meynell—With

four early Poems by Francis

Thompson, & a Foreword by

Gilbert K. Chesterton.


"He has eyes of youth, he writes verses"

The Merry Wives of Windsor.


The four early poems of Francis
Thompson are here published,
for the first time in book form, by the
permission of his Literary Executor.

We have also to thank the Editors
of The Station, The Tablet, The Outlook,
The New Age, The Westminster
Gazette, The Evening Standard, The
Irish Rosary
and The Lamp, for permission
to re-publish other Verses.