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A CATALOGUE OF

Messrs. Methuen's

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry

Rudyard Kipling. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. By Rudyard Kipling. 47M Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character. . . . Unmistakeable genius lings 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?'—Pall Mall Gazette.

Rudyard Kipling. THE SEVEN SEAS. By Rudyard Kipling. 41st Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, gilt top. 6s. 'The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their pre- decessors. Patriotism is thcsolid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has 1 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. "Q." POEMS AND BALLADS. By " Q." ( rown 8vo. 3?. 6d. ' This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry.' — Speaker. «'Q." GREEN P-AYS: Verses and Parodies. By"Q." Second Edition. Crown 8i'o. 35. 6d. A E. Mackay. A SONG OF THE SEA. By Eric Mackay. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 55. ' Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric' — Globe. A Drama by Translated by Third Edition. H. Ibsen. BRAND. HENRIK h;SEN. William Wilson. Crown 8zo. 3s. 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.' — St. James's Gazette. James Williams. VENTURES IN VERSE By |amks Williams, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 'In matter and manner the book is admir- able.'— Glasgow Herald. J. G. Cordery. THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER. A Translation by I. G. Cokdery. Crown 8vo. 7s. 0,/. ' A spirited, accurate, and scholarly piece of work.' -Glasgow Htrald.