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 A LIST OF

Messrs. Methuen's

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry

Rudyard Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And Other Verses. By Rudyard Kipling. Ninth Edition. Crown %vo. ds.

' Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character. . . . Unmistakable genius

rings in every line.' — Times. ' " Barrack-Room Ballads " contains some of the best work that Mr. Kipling has ever done, which is saying a good deal. " Fuzzy- Wuzzy," " Gunga Din," and " Tommy," are, in our opinion, altogether superior to anything of the kind that English literature has hitherto produced." — Athenceum. 'The_ ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears ; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life ; and if this be not poetry, what \zV— Pall Mall Gazette.

"Q." THE GOLDEN POMP : A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley, arranged by A. T. QuiLLER Couch. Crown Sz>o, Buckram. 6s. ' A delightful volume : a really golden "Pomp." '—Spectator.

" Q." GREEN BAYS : Verses and Parodies. By " O.," Author

of 'Dead Man's Rock,' etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

'The verses display a rare and versatile gift of parody, great command of metre, and a very pretty turn of humour.' — Ti7iies.

H. C. Beeching. LYRA SACRA : An Anthology of Sacred Verse. Edited by H. C. Beeching, M.A. C^-oivn %vo. Buckram, ds. 'An anthology of high excellence.' — AthencBUDi. ' A charming selection, which maintains a lofty standard of excellence.' — Times.

W. B. Yeats. AN ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH VERSE. Edited by W. B. Yeats. Crown 2,z'o. ^s. 6d.

' An attractive and catholic selection.' — Times.

' It is edited by the most original and most accomplished of modern Irish poets, and against his editing but a single objection can be brought, namely, that it excludes from the collection his own delicate lyrics.' — Saturday Review.

E. Mackay. A SONG OF THE SEA : My Lady of Dreams, AND OTHER PoEMs. By Eric Mackay, Author of 'The Love Letters of a Violinist.' Second Edition. Fcap. 2>vo, gilt top. $s. ' Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric. He has a keen sense of rhythm and of general balance; his verse is excellently sonorous.' — Globe. ' Throughout the book the poetic workmanship is fine.'— Scotsf/tan.

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