“It is a great work, and shows that America has a great poet.... A century from now this poem will be known and quoted wherever fine thought is appreciated, or brave deeds sung.”—_Western Rural._ BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS BY GEORGE L. RAYMOND 16mo, CLOTH EXTRA, $1.25 “In the construction of the ballad, he has given some notable examples of what may be wrought of native material by one who has a tasteful ear and practised hand. If he does not come up to the standard of the ancient ballad, which is the model, he has done as well as any of the younger American authors who have attempted this kind of work, and there is true enjoyment in all that he has written. Of his other poems, the dramatic poem, ‘Haydn,’ is finished in form, and has literary value, as well as literary power.”—_Boston Globe._ “The author has achieved a very unusual success, a success to which genuine poetic power has not more contributed than wide reading and extensive preparation. The ballads overflow, not only with the general, but the very particular, truths of history.”—_Cincinnati Times._ “It may well find readers in abundance ... for the sake of the many fine passages which it contains.... ‘Ideals made Real’ has one point of very high excellence ... we have in the conception of the character of Edith the work of a genuinely dramatic poet.... In Edith we have a thoroughly masculine intellect in a thoroughly feminine soul, not merely by the author’s assertion, but by actual exhibition. Every word that Edith speaks, every act that she does, is in accord with this conception.... It is sufficient, without doubt, to give life to a less worthy performance, and it proves beyond doubt that Mr. Raymond is the possessor of a poetic faculty which is worthy of the most careful and conscientious cultivation.”—_N. Y. Evening Post._ “A very thoughtful study of character ... great knowledge of ... aims and motives.... Such as read this poem will derive from it a benefit more lasting than the mere pleasure of the moment.”—_London Spectator._ “Mr. Raymond is a poet emphatically, and not a scribbler in rhyme.”—_London Literary Churchman._ “His is no mere utterance of dreams and fancies. His poetry takes hold on life; it enters the arena where its grandest and purest motives are discussed, and by the vigor and beauty of the language it holds itself on a level with the highest themes.... Every thoughtful reader ... will wish that the poems had been longer or that there had been more of them. It would be possible to quote passage after passage of rare beauty.”—_Utica Herald._