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 THE WORKS OF A. E. HOUSMAN A SHROPSHIRE LAD: Poems. Leather. i8mo. $1.00 net. Mr. William Archer: " One of Mr. Housman's strongest and rarest qualities — his unerring dramatic instinct. It is long since we have caught just this note in English verse — the note of intense feeling uttering itself in language of unadorned precision, uncontorted truth. _ Mr. Housman is a vernacular poet, if ever there was one. But if he is vernacular, he is also classical in the best sense of the word. His simplicity is not that of weakness but of strength and skill. He eschews extrinsic and factitious ornament because he knows how to attain beauty without it." THE WORK OF LAURENCE HOUSMAN GREEN ARRAS : Poems. With six illustrations, title-page, cover-design, and end-papers by the author. i2mo. ^1.50. Mr. William Archer : " I need not dwell upon the strength, the terseness, the fine teciinical quality of these verses. Everywhere, as it seems to me, Mr. Housman's work is essentially poetic. Mr. Housman always writes with distinction, sometimes with real beauty, and generally with as much perspicuity as can be demanded of a poet who dwells exclusively on matters which, by hypothesis, transcend human reason." THE POEMS OF EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY POEMS. With a Memoir by W. V. Gill, and a Critical Estimate by John Addington Symonds. With a frontispiece portrait. i2mo. ^1.50. John Addington Svmonds : " The artistic value of Lefroy's work is great. . . . Lefroy proved that it is possible to combine religious faith with frank delight in natural loveliness, to be a Christian without asceti- cism, and a Greek without sensuality. . . . This simplicity and absolute sincerity of instinct are surely uncommon in our perplexed epoch. To rest for a moment upon the spontaneous and unambitious poetry which glowed from such a nature cannot fail to refresh minds wearied with the storm and stress of modern thought." THE BOOKS OF ALICE MEYNELL LATER POEMS. l2mo. ^i.oo n^.'. Uniform •witA *' Poems.'" The Chicag-o Tribune : " In this little volume of ' Later Poems' there are many charming verses, and probably no living English woman poet stands on the same plane with her." POEMS. l2mo. ^1.25. FourtA edition. Mr. George Meredith, in The National Revte7v, August, 1896: "To the metrical themes attempted by her she brings emotion, sincerity, together with an exquisite play upon our finer chords quite her own, not to be heard from another. Some of her lines have the living tremor in them. The poems are beautiful in idea as in grace of touch." THE RHYTHM OF LIFE, and Other Essays. i2mo. $1.25. Fourth edition. Athenaum {London')'. "Full of profound, searching, sensitive appreciation of all kinds of subjects. Exercises in close thinking and exact expression, almost unique in the literature of the day. " Mr. Coventry Patmore, in The Fortnightly Review : " I am about to direct attention to one of the very rarest products of nature and grace — a woman of genius, one who I am bound to confess has falsified the assertion I made some time ago that no female writer of our time has attained to true 'distinction.' " THE COLOUR OF LIFE, and Other Essays. i2mo. ^1.25. Fourth edition. Mr. George Meredith, in The National Review : "I can fancy Matthew Arnold lighting on such essays as I have named, saying with refreshment, * She can write! ' It does not seem to me too bold to imagine Carlisle listening, without the weariful gesture, to his wife's reading of the same, hearing them to the end, and giving his comment, * That woman thinks.' "