"A remarkable poem of the sea."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--Current Literature.
"A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield's position in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--Everybody's Magazine.
"Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--N. Y. Sun.
"There is strength about everything Masefield writes that compels the feeling that he has an inward eye on which he draws to shape new films of old pictures. In these pictures is freshness combined with power, which form the keynotes of his poetry."--N. Y. Globe.
Fires
By W. W. GIBSON
Author of "Daily Bread," "Womenkind," etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
In this striking book of verse Mr. Gibson writes of simple, homely folk with touching sympathy. The author's previous book, "Daily Bread," was heralded far and wide as the book of the year in the field of poetry; in "Fires" are contained many of the same characteristics which distinguished it. The story of a girl whose lover is struck dead by a flying bit of stone; of a wife who has unusual patience with her husband's shortcomings; of a flute player; of a shop and a shopkeeper; of a machine and those who feed it--these are the subjects of a number of the separate pieces.