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 THE HUMOROUS WORKS OF OWEN SEAMAN

IN CAP AND BELLS : A Book of Verses. 16mo. $1.25.

THE BATTLE OF THE BAYS. 16mo. $1.25. Third edition.

HORACE AT CAMBRIDGE. 16mo. $1.25. New edition.

The Pall Mall Gazette : " Mr. Seaman must be tired of being compared to Calverly and J. K. S., but he is of their company, and what is more, on their level. . . . One charm of writing such as Mr. Seaman's is that it makes us feel quite obliged to poets whom we have never admired, for being so good to parody." The National Observer: " His versatility and ready wit are conspicuous in all his work. As a parodist he is second to none, not even to Mr. Calverly. Mr. Seaman cracks the whip with consummate skill, and applies it with such naughty precision that even his victims must find it difficult to withhold their admiration."

THE WORK OF DORA SIGERSON (mrs. clement shorter).

THE FAIRY CHANGELING AND OTHER POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.

Mr. William Archer : " There is race in her work ; it smacks of the soil ; it is no mere imitative culture- product, but an expression of innate emotion and impulse. Mrs. Shorter has all the fanciful melancholy, the ardent spirituality, and the eerie-pathetic invention of the western Kelts. The unseen world of semi- malignant elemental beings is quite as real to her as the tangible world of her five senses. Her imagina- tion is nourished on folk-lore.'

THE WORKS OF ARTHUR SYMONS

THE POEMS OF ARTHUR SYMONS, with photogravure portrait of the author as frontis- piece. In two volumes. 12mo. $3.50 wer.

Mr. William Archer: " Mr. Symons is a love poet or nothing ; when he sings of love he is himself in the expression of his moods. Mr. Symons often attains real beauty. He writes very well — fluently, gracefuly, without the slightest harshness or vulgarity of form. Mr. Symons does not merely record his own actual sensations and experiences, but gives them an imaginative extension, working out in detail the data they provide, the possibilities implicit in them. We encounter a distinct personality, an individual note and a restricted, but far from insignificant, technical accomplishment."

THE WORKS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON

POEMS. With Frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Pott 4to. $1.50. Fifth edition.

SISTER SONGS. An Offering to Two Sisters. With frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Pott 4to. Buckram. $1.50. Fourth edition.

NEW POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.

H. D. Traill in the Nineteenth Century : " I can hardly doubt that at least that minority who can recognize the' essentials under the accidents of poetry, and who feel that it is to poetic Form only, and not to forms, that eternity belongs, will agree that, alike in wealth and dignity of imagination, in depth and subtlety of thought, and in magic and mastery of language a new poet of the first rank is to be welcomed in this author."

Coventry Patmore in the Fortnightly Reinew: "Profound thought and far-fetched splendor of imagery, and nirnble-witted discernment of those analogies which are the roots of the poet's language, abound, — qualities which ought to place him in the prominent ranks of fame."

THE WORK OF HERBERT TRENCH

DEIRDRE WED, AND OTHER POEMS. 12mo. $1.50.

The Westminster Gazette says: "Mr. Herbert Trench's little volume contains the best hundred pages of English verse which the younger school of the last two decades has produced. But it represents more than this. Grace of metre and scholarly expression have now become the birthright of the many minor bards. Mr. Trench takes his readers into a wider air ; his best lines are touched with the spacious majesty of the Elizabethan singers; his imagery is not sensuous only; it is simple; and he can be passionate as well."

St. James's Gazette : " A notable poem. The first serious attempt of a modern poet to use the Irish material as the great masters have used the classics. . . . Admirably does the poetry reflect the elemental spirit and passion, breathing through legendary souls. Instinct with feeling for bold archaic grandeur."