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A LIST OF I Messrs. Methuen's PU BLICATIONS Poetry RUDYARD KIPLING'S NEW POEMS Rudyard Kipling. THE SEVEN SEAS. By Rudyard Kipling. Third Edition. Crown Svo. Buckram, gill top. 6s. ' The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their pre- decessors. Patriotism is the solid 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 states- men may have, one way or other, to take account of them.' — Manchestir Guardian. ' Animated through and through with indubitable genius.' — Daily Telegraph. ' Packed with inspiration, with humour, with pathos.' — Daily Chronicle. ' All the pride of empire, all the intoxication of power, all the ardour, the energy, the masterful strength and the wonderful endurance and death-scorning pluck which are the very bone and fibre and marrow of the British character are here.' —Daily Mail. Rudyard Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. By Rudyard Kipling, Twelflh Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character. . . . Unmistakable 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 cur pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is?' — Pall Mall Gazelle. 'Q." POEMS AND BALLADS. By "Q." Crowu Svo. 3s. 6d. ' This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry.' — Speaker. "Q." GREEN BAYS : Verses and Parodies. By " Q.," Author of ' Dead Man's Rock,' etc. Second Edition. Crown Zvo, y.6d. E. Mackay. A SONG OF THE SEA. By Eric Mackay, .Second Edition. Fcap. Zvo. ^s. ' Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric' — Globe. Ibsen. BRAND. A Drama by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by William Wilson. Second Edition. Crown Svo. y. 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.