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A CATALOGUE OF


Messrs. Methuen's

PUBLICATIONS


Poetry


Rudyaxd Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. By Rudyard Kipling. both Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6s. ' Mr. Kipling's verse il strong, vivid, full of character. . . . Unmistakeable genius rings in every line.' — Times. ' 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 is ? '—Pail Mail Gazette.

Rudyard Kipling. THE SEVEN SEAS. By Rudyard Kipling. 50//4 Thousand. Cr. Zvo. Buckram, gilt top. ds,

' The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their pre- decessors. Patriotism is thesolid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has built the whole of his work.' — Times. ' The Empire has found a singer ; it is no depreciation of the songs to say that statesmen may have, one way or other, to take account of them.' — Manchester Guardian. 'Animated through and through with in- dubitable genius.' — Daily Telegraph.

••a" POEMS AND BALLADS. By

"Q." Crown Zvo. 35. 6(/. ' This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry.' — Speaker.

"Q." GREEN BAYS: Verses and Parodies. By * ' Q. " Second Edition . Crown 8vo, y. 6d.


E. Mackay. A SONG OF THE SEA. By Eric Mackay. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5J.

' Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric' — Globe.

H, Ibsen. BRAND. A Drama by

Henrik Ibsen. Translated by

William Wilson. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

' The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to "Faust." It is in the same set with " Agamemnon," with " Lear," with the literature that we now instinctively regard as high and holy.' — Daily Chronicle.

"A.G." VERSES TO ORDER. By "A. G." Crown 8vo. 2S. 6d. net.

' A capital specimen of light academic poetry.' — Si. James's Gazette.

James Williams. VENTURES IN VERSE. By JAMES Williams, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. y. 6d.

' In matter and manner the book is admir- able.' — Glas£^07u Herald.

J. G. Cordery. THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER. A Translation by J. G. CORDEHIY. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.

' A spirited, accurate, and scholarly piece of work.' — Glasg-o^v Herald.