To the Editors of _The World_ and _The National Observer_, and to the Proprietors of _Punch_, I wish to express my thanks for their courtesy in permitting me to republish these verses. O. S. * * * * * The Battle of the Bays. _Eighth Edition._ Price 3s. 6d. _net._ Fcap. 8vo. Price $1.25. SOME PRESS OPINIONS. "The new 'Rejected Addresses' of Mr. Owen Seaman are quite worthy to be ranked with the classic volumes of Horace and James.... The thing is done as well as it could be.... This little volume is _merum sal_."--_The Spectator_. "Mr. Kipling has never been so nimbly caught before, for Mr. Seaman has the art to reproduce his flute-notes as well as his big drum.... Several of the miscellaneous pieces are among the very best humourous poetry of this generation. We have laughed at nothing lately more than at 'Ars Postera,' at 'A New Blue Book,' at 'To a Boy-Poet of the Decadence,' and at 'To Julia in Shooting Togs.' But, after all, Mr. Seaman's masterpiece up to date is certainly 'To the Lord of Potsdam.' ... This will live, or we are greatly mistaken, among the most effective examples of historical satire-lyric."--_The Saturday Review_. "It is certainly remarkable, in our dearth of great poetry, how good of its sort the satiric verse of our day is--so good, in fact, that nothing but the best will serve, and even the best, like Mr. Seaman's, which in the day when Sir George Trevelyan was a wit would have taken people's breath away, is apt to be treated as mere journalism.... But really it is the most characteristic expression of our time, using the accustomed forms of verse to point the neatest criticisms and the slyest of epigrams.... Mr. Seaman's humourous imitation of Mr. Swinburne, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sir Lewis Morris, Mr. Kipling, and the rest, is in every case very funny."--_St. James's Gazette_. "The book abounds in excellent fooling and really wholesome satire, the ingenuity and felicity of verse and expression giving it likewise a high artistic value.... Quips and cranks of audacious wit, strokes of a humour always sane and healthy, waylay the reader incessantly, and leave him no peace for laughter."--_The Westminster Gazette_. "Mr. Seaman must be tired of being compared to Calverley and J. K. S., but he is of their company, and, what is more, on their level. 'The Battle of the Bays' ... bristles with points; it is brilliant, ... and it has that easy conversational flow which is the one absolutely necessary characteristic of good humourous poetry.... One charm of writing such as Mr. Seaman's is that it makes us feel quite obliged to poets whom we have never admired for being so good to parody."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. "Mr. Owen Seaman has a very neat talent for parody.... The 'Ballad of a Bun' is exceedingly funny, and ought to make even Mr. John Davidson laugh.... All the imitations are good."--_The Times_.