FAR QUESTS
CALE YOUNG RICE
The countrymen of Cale Young Rice apparently regard him as the equal of the great American poets of the past. Far Quests is good unquestionably. It shows a wide range of thought, and sympathy, and real skill in workmanship, while occasionally it rises to heights of simplicity and truth, that suggest such inspiration as should mean lasting fame.—The Daily Telegraph (London).
"Mr. Rice's lyrics are deeply impressive. A large number are complete and full-blooded works of art."—Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps (Yale University).
"Far Quests contains much beautiful work—the work of a real poet in imagination and achievement."—Prof. J. W. Mackail (Oxford University).
"Mr. Rice is determined to get away from local or national limitations and be at whatever cost universal.... These poems are always animated by a force and freshness of feeling rare in work of such high virtuosity."—The Scotsman (Edinburgh).
"Mr. Cale Young Rice is acknowledged by his countrymen to be one of their great poets. There is great charm in the nature songs (of this volume) and of the East. Mr. Rice writes with great simplicity and beauty."—The Sphere (London).
"Mr. Rice's forte is a poetic drama. Yet in the act of saying this the critic is confronted by such poems as The Mystic.... These are the poems of a thinker, a man of large horizons, an optimist profoundly impressed with the pathos of man's quest for happiness in all lands."—The Chicago Record-Herald.
"Mr. Rice's latest volume shows no diminution of poetic power. Fecundity is a mark of the genuine poet, and a glance through these pages will demonstrate how rich Mr. Rice is in vitality and variety of thought.... There is too, the unmistakable quality of style. It is spontaneous, flexible, and strong with the strength of simplicity—a style of rare distinction."—Albert S. Henry (The Book News Monthly, Philadelphia).
THE IMMORTAL LURE
CALE YOUNG RICE
It is great art—with great vitality. James Lane Allen.