"Mr Masefield is no common realist, but universalizes his tragedy in the grand manner.... We are convinced that he is writing truly of human nature, which is the vital thing.... The last few stanzas show us pastoral poetry in the very perfection of simplicity."--Spectator.
"In 'The Widow in the Bye Street' all Mr Masefield's passionate love of loveliness is utterly fused with the violent and unlovely story, which glows with an inner harmony. The poem, it is true, ends on a note of idyllism which recalls Theocritus; but this is no touch of eternal decoration. Inevitably the story has worked towards this culmination."--Bookman.
THE TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT.
A Play in Three Acts. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net. Wrappers, 1s. 6d. net. Third Impression
"In this Roman tragedy, while we admire its closely knit structure, dramatic effectiveness, and atmosphere of reality ... the warmth and colour of the diction are the most notable things.... He knows the art of phrasing; he has the instinct for and by them."--Athaeneum.
"He has written a great tragedy.... The dialogue is written in strong, simple and nervous prose, flashing with poetic insight, significance and suggestion. The characters are intensely alive, the situations are handled by a master hand, and the whole play is pregnant with that high and solemn pathos which is the gift of the born writer of tragedies."--Morning Post.
AUTUMN, 1913
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TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS. By THOMAS HUGHES. With a Preface by LORD KILBRACKEN, and an Introduction and Notes by F. SIDGWICK. Illustrated from contemporary Portraits and Drawings. Large square 8vo, buckram gilt, 10s. 6d. net.