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Rh BOOKS BY JOHN DAVIDSON.

A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL MISSION OF EARL LAVENDER, WHICH LASTED ONE NIGHT AND ONE DAY. With a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs. Scamier and Maud Emblem, 1 vol., crown 8vo, price 6s. [Now Ready.

PERFERVID: The Career of Ninian Jamieson. With Illustrations by HARRY FURNISS. A few copies of the first edition still remain, crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 6s. New and Cheaper Edition, post 8vo, cloth, as. 6d.

"Cleverly written. . . . The scenes between the Provost of Mintern and Cosmo Mortimer, especially the opening scene on the railway, are extremely comical."—The World.

"A more fascinating story for boys, or for those who are not too old to remember their boyhood, has rarely been written."—Glasgow Herald.

THE GREAT MEN AND A PRACTICAL NOVELIST. With Illustrations by EDWIN J. ELLIS. Crown 8vo, price 3s. 6d.

"Deserves admiration for its fresh and living humour, its racy freedom, its happy power to amuse and enthral. . . . The stories have a clean-cut, dramatic vigour and a plenitude of unforced wit. . . . For pure and simple delight few modern books have beaten Mr. Davidson's."—Anti-Jacobin.

IN A MUSIC HALL, and other Poems. Crown 8vo, price 53.

"Poetically graceful and morally courageous."—Glasgow Herald. "Mr. Davidson is nothing if not bluntly original. . . . In these sketches he shows himself frankly as a realist in poetry."—Scottish Leader.

BAPTIST LAKE. Square crown 8vo, buckram, price 3s. 6d. "Abounds in felicities of expression, in clean-cut, incisive portraiture, and in descriptive passages of singular beauty that linger on the mind."—Daily News.

"One of the best things in the book is the conception of the Middle Class Club. This is really a regal effort. . . . The book is full of good things of another kind, of poets' good things, which are the best to be had."—The Star.

"Mr. John Davidson can write nothing that is not clever. The imagination of the poet glows in every page. . . . Full of enchantment and grace."—The Speaker.

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TWO NEW VOLUMES OF POEMS. BALLADS AND SONGS. By JOHN DAVIDSON. Fcap. 8vo, buckram, 55. net. [Third Edition now ready "They are thoroughly considered; seen as solid wholes, seen not only in front, but round at the back. . . . Both the Ballad in Blank Verse and the Ballad of a Nun contain very strong morals very stoutly driven home. In each the poet has made up his mind: he has a theory of life, and presents that theory to us under cover of a parable of tremendous force."—A. T. Q. C., in the Speaker.

"An abundant vigour, a lusty vitality, is the mark of all his work. He does not versify for the sake of versifying, but because his intensity of feeling seeks an outlet in the most vehement and concentrated form of expression."—Daily Chronicle.

"We must acknowledge that Mr. Davidson's work in this volume displays great power. . . . There is strength and to spare." Tunes.

"Mr. Davidson's new book is the best thing he has done, and to say this is a good deal. . . . Here, at all events, is a poet who is never tame or dull: who, at all events, never leaves us indifferent. His verse speaks to the blood, and there are times when the thing becomes a trumpet.—Saturday Review.

ODES, AND OTHER POEMS. By WILLIAM WATSON. Fcap. 8vo, buckram, 4s. 6d. net. Third Edition now ready.

"Classic sobriety of form, perspicuity of thought, smoothness and richness of cadence, ingenuity and resonance of epithet, a pointed concision of style . . . these are the abiding characteristics of Mr. Watson's verse. . . . He is a writer, indeed, who can write like this."—Daily Chronicle.

"He is one of the very few verse-writers of the present day who can be relied on to give us only his best work, and in that work we are certain to find the rare qualities of simplicity, sanity, and proportion."—Saturday Review.

"Good as Mr. Watson's earlier volumes were, there is, we think, in this volume a very marked advance in craftsmanship and freedom."—Westminster Gazette.

"Mr. Watson sustains easily in this volume the reputation he has gained of far the greatest poet still amongst us." Spectator.

"His new volume contains five or six poems which are real additions to literature."—Times.

London : JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head.