POETRY
A Book of Verse by Living Women. With an Introduction by Lady MARGARET SACKVILLE. List of Authors—Anonymous, Jane Barlow, Anna Bunston, Frances Cornford, Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas), Michael Field, Mrs Hamilton-King, Emily Hickey, Winifred Lucas (Mrs Le Bailly), Eva M. Martin, Annie Matheson, Alice Meynell, Rosa Mulholland, Dolly Radford, Mary Robinson, Lady Margaret Sackville, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Cicely Fox Smith, Elinor Sweetman, Laurence Alma Tadema, Rachel Annand Taylor, Hon. Grace Tollemache, Rosalind Travers, Katharine Tynan, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Margaret L. Woods—Bibliography. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. net; leather, 5s. net.
‘This dainty volume is full of good things. The selection is one of the best I have ever seen.’ —C.K. S. in the Sphere.
‘The volume is proof indisputable of a widespread intellectual and poetic vitality amongst our contemporaries of the sweeter sex.’—Yorkshire Observer.
Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse By PADRAIC COLUM, Hon. Mrs LYTTON, SHANE LESLIE, VIOLA and OLIVIA MEYNELL, Hon. Mrs LINDSAY, HUGH AUSTIN, MONICA SALEEBY, MAURICE HEALY and FRANCIS MEYNELL. With four Early Poems by FRANCIS THOMPSON, now first published in book form. The Foreword by G. K. CHESTERTON. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
‘Most of the contents show a pure and modest poetic purpose; and the whole helps one to realise that much good verse is being written in quietness by people who write it for its own sake.’—Times.
‘It is not possible to cite all the “variety verging on quaintness” represented in this interesting little book, which may be commended to the notice of all interested in poetry.’—Daily Telegraph.
The Porch of Paradise. An Allegorical Poem. By ANNA BUNSTON, Author of Mingled Wine. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
‘A poem of high endeavour and sustained accomplishment.’—T. P.’s Weekly.