The Golden Day
And Miscellaneous Poems
By WILLIAM T. DUMAS
Broad Octavo. 144 pp. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"The Golden Day," the first portion of the work, is a series of poems beginning with "Cock-Crowing" and leading the reader through various scenes to the evening. The design of this portion is to portray the day in the Sunny South, as is evinced by such titles as "The Fox Hunt," "The Dinner Horn," "Corn Husking," etc. Interwoven with these are sonnets and longer pieces on a variety of themes, sentimental, humorous, lyrical.
Of the miscellaneous poems, undoubtedly the finest, in phrasing, meter and conception is "The Cyclone." It is in a strong dactylic verse and is a gem. "Joy: an ode" is of a different type, but full of fine expression. In this portion of the work is also contained an "Ode on the death of Jefferson Davis" and a tribute to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston entitled "From the Valley of the Shadow." A number of the author's earlier poems are also included in the volume.
This production, taken as a whole, stamps the author as possessing in a high degree the true poetic spirit, and his renditions cannot fail to find an appreciative audience, not only throughout the South, but wherever the memories of its former times are harmonized with the realizations of to-day. The book is a well bound and superbly printed octavo of 144 pages. Price $1.00. For sale by all booksellers.
The Dinner Horn
By WILLIAM T. DUMAS
Illustrated by PAUL T. HILL
An Album of 24 leaves, embracing a pictorial title page and the 16 stanzas of "The Dinner Horn," admirably illustrated, each stanza and illustration on a separate leaf.
AN ARTISTIC LIVRE-DE-LUXE
sumptuously printed and bound, gilt edges. Long octavo, album style.
Price, One Dollar