“The high level of merit sustained throughout will insure a deep interest among lovers of devotional verse. These poems maintain the traditions of the best English religious poetry.”—Scotsman.
“They are exquisitely beautiful.”—Church Review.
“These delicate and thoughtful poems breathe the very spirit of their author, broad, simple, and sincere.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
THE MAKERS OF MODERN ENGLISH. By the Rev. W. J. Dawson, Author of “The Threshold of Manhood,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 5s.
CONTENTS—Introductory—The Interval before the Dawn—Robert Burns—Lord Byron—Percy Bysshe Shelley—John Keats—Sir Walter Scott—Coleridge—Robert Southey—William Wordsworth—Wordsworth’s Life and Poetry—Some Characteristics of his Poetry, etc.—The Humanitarian Movement in Poetry: Thomas Hood and Mrs. Browning—Lord Tennyson: General Characteristics—Treatment of Nature—Love and Woman, etc.—Robert Browning—Browning’s Philosophy of Life—The Spirit of Browning’s Religion, etc.—Matthew Arnold—D. G. Rossetti—A. C. Swinburne—William Morris.
PROFESSOR W. G. ELMSLIE, D.D.: Memoir and Remains. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A., LL.D., Editor of The Expositor. With Portrait, crown 8vo, cloth, price 6s.
RESCUERS AND RESCUED: Experiences among our City Poor. By the Rev. James Wells, M.A., Glasgow, Author of “Christ and the Heroes of Christendom,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, and Other Hymns and Poems. By the late Rev. Horatius Bonar, D.D. Crown 8vo, price 5s.
CONTENTS—General Hymns—Christmas and New Years’ Hymns—Hymns of Israel—Fragments.