What sum of bliss wrapped up in moments few;
Life’s sweetest mystery is made my all!”’
Extracts from Letters containing Criticisms by the Chairmen and Secretaries of Public Libraries:—
‘The librarian has handed to me the volume of Idylls, Legends, and Lyrics. I have had time to read the dramatic Idyll Ilamea, and am greatly pleased with its sweetness and high-souled tone.
‘It makes one feel better and stronger for its impressive lesson, so vividly, and pathetically, and sympathetically told. Ilamea is worth the price of the whole volume.
‘I will devote the earliest opportunity to go through its pages, feeling sure that they will add much pleasure to my life, as well as intensify my attachment to poetry. The work is placed in the library of this borough.
‘B. P. WRIGHT, J.P.,
Chairman of Committee, Free Public
Library, Stafford.’