HERBS AND APPLES

Acknowledgment is made to Messrs. Harper & Bros., the Century Company, The Metropolitan Magazine, and Collier's Weekly, for courteous permission to reproduce certain of the verses included in this volume.

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The lover of poetry cannot fail to rejoice in this handsome edition.—Philadelphia Press.

A glow of inspiration that merits better than that of any living poet the high adjective, Vergilian.—New York Evening Post.

Work which will live, one may venture to say, as long as the language.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

"To the Invincible Republic" is full of a generous and admiring appreciation. All of these poems are explicit, strong, and interesting.—New York Sun.

Times—William Watson is, above all things, an artist who is proud of his calling and conscientious in every syllable that he writes. To appreciate his work you must take it as a whole, for he is in line with the high priests of poetry, reared, like Ion, in the shadow of the Delphic presences and memories, and weighing every word of his utterance before it is given to the world.

Athenæum—His poetry is a "criticism of life," and, viewed as such, it is magnificent in its lucidity, its elegance, its dignity.... We revere and admire Mr. Watson's pursuit of a splendid ideal; and we are sure that his artistic self-mastery will be rewarded by a secure place in the ranks of our poets.... We may express our belief that Mr. Watson will keep his high and honorable station when many showier but shallower reputations have withered away, and must figure in any representative anthology of English poetry.... "Wordsworth's Grave" is, in our judgment, Mr. Watson's masterpiece ... its music is graver and deeper, its language is purer and clearer, than the frigid droning and fugitive beauties of the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."

Boston Transcript—Still the poet whose inspirational fantasy gives distinction to modern English Literature.

Spectator—A great artist, "Sable and Purple" is of a high excellence.

Its colors are elemental, silver and gold and red. It is heavy with the breath of citron groves, cool with the tinkling of temple bells, and the air of night, and the cries of wild peacocks and parrots.... In many ways this volume of translation is the most important contribution to poetry that the season has as yet brought forth.

There is nothing stale or hackneyed in this book; newness, freshness, and variety are found on every page. These poems are true lyrics, for they give us true glimpses into the hearts of men.

A volume of passionate love poems written by a true poet.

They are in several metres, handled always with graceful ease, and often with intensity. The coloring is vivid and the music subtle. The book is redolent with the atmosphere of the Arabian Nights.

Mr. Hope is a thorough artist to his fingertips, and his choice of words and images is as keen and exact as his ability to adapt Indian literature to the more prosaic mood and tongue of the Anglo-Saxon.

Mr. Hope has caught admirably the dominant notes of this Indian love poetry, its delirious absorption in the instant, its out-of-door air, its melancholy.

The author has so completely infused the charm of the Orient into this volume that one is transported for the time and lost in the poetic beauty of his surroundings, finds no jarring chord nor is disposed to shrink from the frankness of this translation of oriental verse.

It is still a question whether these are direct translations or whether they are written in the Hindu style by Laurence Hope. Perhaps she has done for the Hindu poets what FitzGerald did for Omar.

He seems to exhale an oriental atmosphere. He sings musically. I can follow the delicate strain by which Hope saves himself from stepping beyond the bounds of a vital reserve.

The author is imbued with the glowing passion of Eastern romance.

The theme, in almost every instance love, is treated with feverish abandon.

The English speaking world has waited a thousand years for a worthy dramatic impersonation of King Alfred. And here it is.... The play will stand not alone upon the grateful response it wins from the English national heart, but as a work of art.... The author is supremely a poet, the master of metaphor not less than of melody.... It is a play not only to be read but to be acted.... This vivid drama is not cast in the conventional classic mould. It is distinctly and wholly English in spirit and form, and intensely modern—but breathing the air of morning, of springtime, of fresh adventure.—Henry Mills Alden, The New York Times Saturday Review.

King Alfred's noble and vigorous character is limned with great skill, while Elfreda, a graceful and innocent maiden, flits through the play like a woodland fairy.—The Glasgow Evening News, Scotland.

The living Alfred lives in this gracious play, for the author has fashioned his great spirit out of the mist of time.—James Douglas, The Star, London.

Stands at the head of all British poets of his generation.—New York Evening Post.

One of the truest poets that modern England owns.—Bookman.

Belongs to the class that Rossetti does, with a touch of Herrick, and something which is Dowson, and Dowson alone.—Dr. Talcott Williams in Book News.

In this volume we have a welcome gathering together of the principal poems issued by Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson during the past sixteen years.... In this new form his poems should make new friends.—London Daily Telegraph.

A collection of poems by this well-known author of Italian, Irish and American verse. The volume contains all of the most popular verses from "Canzoni," in addition to many new ones of equal appeal.

The genuine spirit of Irish antiquity and Irish folk lore—the very spirit of the myth-makers is in him.—Mr. William Archer.

Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With 9 illustrations.

A Landorian touch of divine simplicity.—The Dial.

New York Times—Nothing finer has come to us from an English pen in the way of a poetic and literary play since the appearance of Taylor's "Philip van Artevelde."

Brooklyn Daily Eagle—It is not too much to say that "Paolo and Francesca" is the most important example of English dramatic poetry that has appeared since Browning died.

Philadelphia Press—"Paolo and Francesca" has beauty, passion, and power.... The poem deserves a wide reading on account of its intrinsic merit and interest.

Times—Here, then, is a noble work of dramatic imagination dealing greatly with great passions; multicolored and exquisitely musical. Mr. Stephen Phillips is not only a poet, but that still rarer thing, a dramatic poet.

Mr. William Archer (in The World)—The elder Dumas speaking with the voice of Milton.

Athenæum—Not unworthy of the author of "The Duchess of Malfi."

Times—Mr. Phillips is a poet, one of the half dozen men of the younger generation, whose writings contain the indefinable quality which makes for permanence.

Spectator—In his new volume Mr. Stephen Phillips more than sustains the promise made by his "Christ in Hades"; here is real poetic achievement—the veritable gold of song.

Literature—No such remarkable book of verse as this has appeared for several years.

William Dean Howells—Tennyson at his age had not done better.

The Nation—An uncommonly masculine volume.

Chicago Record-Herald—What every admirer of this virile poet desires, a brief summary of his important work from which an adequate conception of his style and versatility can be obtained.

Athenæum—There is urgent need for a collected edition of Mr. Davidson's poems and plays. The volume and variety of his poetry ought to win for it wider acceptance. It is indeed curious that poetry so splendid as Mr. Davidson's should fail to get fuller recognition. There are many aspects of his genius which ought to make his work popular in the best sense of the word. He has almost invented the modern ballad.... He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative life and power.

Times—There are not more than two or three living writers of English verse out of whose poems so good a selection could be made. The poems in the selection are not only positive—they are visible.

Literary World—We count ourselves among those to whom Mr. Davidson has made himself indispensable.

Daily Mail—Mr. Davidson is our most individual singer. His variety is as surprising as his virility of diction and thought.

St. James's Gazette—This volume may serve as an introduction to a poet of noble and distinctive utterance.

New Age—The book contains much that Mr. Davidson's warmest admirers would best wish to remember him by. There is a subtle charm about these poems which eludes definition, which defies analysis.

T. P.'s Weekly—Mr. Davidson is one of the most individual of living poets; he has a rare lyrical faculty.

Morning Post—Mr. Davidson is as true a poet as we have now among us ... he has included nothing that we do not admire.

Daily Graphic—This delightful volume.

Dundee Advertiser—Its poetry gives out a masterful note.... Mr. Davidson's poem pictures.