rushed forward with the green dawn,' it is not what we call a figure of speech: it is his sensitive, literal way of seeing things. More definite, more concrete, closer to the earth and to instinctive emotion than most other poets, the Welsh poet might have said of himself, in another sense than that in which he said it of Alexander: 'What he desired in his mind he had from the world.' 1898. * * * * * Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty at the University Press, Edinburgh End of Project Gutenberg's Figures of Several Centuries, by Arthur Symons