‘It makes one feel better and stronger for its impressive lesson, so vividly, and pathetically, and sympathetically told. ILAMEA is worth the price of the whole volume. ‘I will devote the earliest opportunity to go through its pages, feeling sure that they will add much pleasure to my life, as well as intensify my attachment to poetry. The work is placed in the library of this borough. ‘B. P. WRIGHT, J.P., _Chairman of Committee, Free Public Library, Stafford_.’ * * * * * ‘The MAYOR OF SLIGO has requested that a second copy of IDYLLS, LEGENDS, AND LYRICS be purchased. The verses are very sweet. They do not stir the spirit like the strong lines of Byron: but they come over us with a bewitching softness that in certain moods is still more delightful, and soothe the troubled spirits with a refreshing sense of truth, purity, and elegance. ‘They are pensive rather than passionate, and more full of wisdom and tenderness than flights of fancy, or overwhelming bursts of emotion; while they are moulded into grace, at least as much by the effect of the moral beauties they disclose as by the taste and judgment with which they are constructed. ‘DAVID SAULTRY, _Chief Librarian, Free Public Library, Sligo, Ireland_.’ ‘I have read the first poem, ILAMEA, in this interesting volume of verse, and can bear my testimony as to its beauty of conception and true poetic merit. I like the poetry exceedingly, and feel quite confident that the work only requires to be better known to secure it a very wide circulation. ‘ALFRED LANCASTER, _Chief Librarian, Free Public Library, St. Helens_.’ * * * * * ‘I am very glad to see in IDYLLS, LEGENDS, AND LYRICS a poem on Cædmon. I am particularly interested in old-time literature myself, and am giving special attention to such subjects as “Cædmon” and “Beowulf.” ‘I shall be very glad to have another copy, as it is the first work I have seen for a long time which is so exactly suited to my taste. ‘FRED TURNER, _Free Public Library, Brentford_.’ * * * * * ‘This work is an exceptionally good one, and I thank you for calling my attention to a volume of poems of such merit as these possess. ‘I have told my committee that, as far as I am a judge of poetry, I considered that this work was entitled to a place on our shelves.