MEssrs. METHUEN’S LIST 13

jPev and Becent Books
Poetry

Rudyard Kipling BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And
Other Verses. By Rupyarp KIPLING, Seventh Edition. Crown
8v0. 6s,

A Special Presentation Edition, bound in white buckram, with
extra gilt ornament. 75. 6d.

‘Mr. Kipling’s verse is strong, vivid, full of character. .. . Unmistakable genius
rings in every line.’—Zizes.

‘The disreputable lingo of Cockayne is henceforth justified before the world; fora
man of genius has taken it in hand, and has shown, beyond all cavilling, that in
its way it also is a medium for literature. You are grateful, and you say to
yourself, half in envy and half in admiration: ‘‘ Here is a Jook ; here, or one isa
Dutchman, is one of the books of the year.” ’—Wational Observer.

‘“ 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.’—A theneunt.

‘These ballads are as wonderful in their descriptive power as they are vigorous in
their dramatic force. There are few ballads in the English language more
stirring than ‘‘The Ballad of East and West,” worthy to stand by the Border
ballads of Scott.’—Spectator.

‘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?’—Pall Mall Gazette.

Henley. LYRA HEROICA: An Anthology selected from the
best English Verse of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and r9th Centuries. By
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY, Author of ‘A Book of Verse,’ ‘ Views
and Reviews,’ etc. Crown 8v0. Stamped gilt buckram, gilt top,
edges uncut, 65.

‘Mr. Henley has brought to the task of selection an instinct alike for poetry and for
chivalry which seems to us quite wonderfully, and even unerringly, right,’—
Guardian

Tomson, A SUMMER NIGHT, AND OTHER POEMS, By
GraHAM R. Tomson, With Frontispiece by A. ToMson. Fvap.
8vo. 35. 6a.

An edition on hand-made paper, limited to 50 copies, 105. 6a. net.

‘Mrs. Tomson holds perhaps the very highest rank among poetesses of English birth.
This selection will help her reputation,’—Black and White.