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 IMPORTANT NEW POETRY

TWO NEW BOOKS BY JOHN MASEFIELD

With twelve plates in color and black and white illustrations By $2.00 It is first of all as a poet of the sea that most people think of John Masefield. Consequently the publication of what may be called a deluxe edition of his best salt water ballads and sea poems is particularly gratifying. Here will be found one or two absolutely new pieces, new, that is, so far as their inclusion. in a book is concerned. Among these are "The Ship and Her Makers," and "The New Bedford Whaler." Here also well-chosen selections from "Salt Water Ballads," from "Philip the King," and "The Story of a Round House." Mr. Masefield has been extremely fortunate in his illustrator. The twelve full-page illustrations in color and the twenty in black and white by Mr. Pears admirably reflect the spirit of the poet's lines.

That Mr. Masefield is well grounded in the principles of dramatic art has been amply proved by the plays which he has published hitherto—"The Faithful," "Philip the King," "The Tragedy of Pompey" among others. In this book two further additions are made to a literature which he has already so greatly enriched. In the realm of the one-act play, which it has been maintained is a type all unto itself, he is seen to quite as good effect as in the longer work; in fact this volume, this first new book from Masefield since his American tour, may well rank with his best.

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