With photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, $1.50. Also in leather bindings.
This complete edition of Mr. Gilder's poems appeared under his supervision a year and a half ago. It contains his final selection from his nine previous volumes, together with his last pieces, and is a notable and permanent addition to the library of American song.
POEMS OF BELIEF
By Theodore C. Williams
Translator of "Virgil's Æneid" and "Elegies of Tibullus." With frontispiece by Elihu Vedder. 12mo.
Mr. Williams, whose recent edition of the Æneid is regarded by the Harvard Graduates' Magazine as "the best English translation of the present time," offers in this new volume about seventy poems which may be divided into three groups,—religious, occasional, and translations from the Latin. The poems express devoutly and freely the common experiences of the religious life, but are not ecclesiastical; and though not doctrinal, the accent is rather upon truth than feeling. The standpoint is ethical idealism. As The Christian Register has said, Mr. Williams is "a religious idealist who is at heart a true poet ... as well as a thorough classical scholar and a winning religious teacher."
Riverside Press Editions
A POET IN EXILE
BEING SOME EARLY LETTERS OF
John Hay
Edited by Caroline Ticknor. Limited Riverside Press Edition. With portrait. 8vo.
A highly interesting and significant episode in the life of John Hay is presented in this unusual little book in the original documents. In 1858, young Hay, then twenty years of age, graduated from Brown University and went to study law in a dingy law office in Warsaw, Illinois. This was his poetic period of storm and stress. Remote from the literary friendships that had been a delight and inspiration in college, exile as he felt himself, he poured himself out in some interesting unpublished poems and particularly in a series of letters to his friend, Miss Nora Perry, the poet of Providence, who was one of the most interesting women of her time. The slender volume, which contains these letters and poems published for the first time, will be of extraordinary interest to book-lovers, collectors, and the many admirers of Mr. Hay. It is octavo, of about 64 pages, printed from type on Batchelor hand-made paper, and bound uncut in paper-boards with paper label. The frontispiece is a contemporary portrait of Hay engraved on copper by Sidney L. Smith.
