- Cross in the Cell, 1.00.
- Christ a Friend, 1.00.
- Agnes and the Little Key, 1.00.
- Evenings with the Doctrines, 1.00.
- Under the Mizzenmast, 1.25.
- At Eventide, 1.25.
- Bertha, 1.00.
- Friends of Christ, 1.00.
- Endless Punishment, 1.00.
- Communion Sabbath, 1.25.
- Catherine, 1.00.
- Broadcast, 1.00.
ADAMS (Oscar Fay). (See also “Through the Year with the Poets.”)
POST-LAUREATE IDYLS AND OTHER POEMS. 16mo, cloth, gilt top, 1.00; vegetable parchment, 1.50.
The Post-Laureate Idyls are ten parodies of Tennyson’s “Idyls of the King” whose themes are taken from Mother Goose Melodies. The Other Poems are “A Tale of Tuscany,” “The Legend of the Golden Lotus,” fifteen lyrics and eight sonnets.
“The dexterity and cleverness with which Mr. Adams has made the old rhymes serve his turn is amazing. The humor is delicate and unfailing throughout, while the verse is smooth and flowing, with graceful and liquid cadence. Mr. Adams is too truly a poet, however, to deal in pure burlesque, and there runs through all the pleasantry of these pages a touch of sadness, like the echo of the pain of the lays they travesty. They could not be better done. The lyrics and sonnets which end the volume are marked by sweetness and delicacy.”—Arlo Bates in Boston Courier.
“He is a poet of high aims and conscientious execution.”—New York Nation.
“Post-Laureate Idyls and Other Poems is a book of genuine poetic spirit and almost flawless workmanship.”—Boston Advertiser.
“Witty, quaint, charming ... the best things I can think of in the line of respectful parody.”—Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton.
“There are dozens of passages which would impose upon the sharpest members of any Tennysonian club, so like they are to the style and expression of the master.”—Boston Transcript.
ADAMS (Robert C.).