Unless you are very keenly set upon reading to yourself, I think I should advise you to ask some one to read these pieces aloud, not too many at a time. And I want you to understand that there is a kind of poetry that is finer far than anything here: poetry to which this book is, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply a "stepping-stone." When you feel, as I hope some day you will feel, that these pages no longer satisfy, then you must turn to the better thing.
E. V. L.
The following are the various headings under which the Contents are grouped:—
Two Thoughts—The Open Air—The Year—Christmas—The Country Life—Blossoms from Herrick and Blake—Birds—Dogs and Horses—Compressed Natural History—Unnatural History—Poets at Play—Counsel—Old-Fashioned Girls—Marjorie Fleming, Poetess—Old-Fashioned Boys—Looking Forward—From "Hiawatha"—Good Fellows—The Sea and the Island—A Bundle of Stories—Bedtime—A Few Remarks.
OTHER OF MR. GRANT RICHARDS'S PUBLICATIONS.
THE FLOWER OF THE MIND: A Choice among the Best Poems. By Alice Meynell. With Cover designed by Laurence Housman. Crown 8vo. Buckram, 6s.
REALMS OF UNKNOWN KINGS: Poems. By Laurence Alma-Tadema. Fcap. 8vo. Paper covers, 2s. net. Buckram, 3s. net.
POEMS BY A. AND L. By Arabella and Louisa Shore. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 5s. net.
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. A Paraphrase from several Literal Translations. By Richard le Gallienne. Long Fcap. 8vo. Parchment Cover. 5s.