“Imagination, the capacity to perceive vividly and feel sincerely, and the gift of fit and beautiful expression in verse-form--if these may be taken as the equipment of a poet, nearly all of this volume is poetry. And if to the sum of these be added the indescribable increment of charm which comes occasionally to the work of some poet, quite unearned by any of these catalogued qualities of his, you have a fair measure of Mr. Noyes at his best.... Two considerations render Mr. Noyes interesting above most poets: the wonderful degree in which the personal charm illumines what he has already written, and the surprises which one feels may be in store in his future work. His feelings have already so much variety and so much apparent sincerity that it is impossible to tell in what direction his genius will develop. In whatever style he writes,--the mystical, the historical-dramatic, the impassioned description of natural beauty, the ballad, the love lyric,--he has the peculiarity of seeming in each style to have found the truest expression of himself.”--_Louisville Courier-Journal._ _PUBLISHED BY_ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Sixty-four and Sixty-six Fifth Avenue, New York A History of English Poetry BY W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., D.Litt., LL.D. Late Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford _Cloth, 8vo, $3.25 net per volume_ VOLUME I. The Middle Ages--Influence of the Roman Empire--The Encyclopædic Education of the Church--The Feudal System. VOLUME II. The Renaissance and the Reformation--Influence of the Court and the Universities. VOLUME III. English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century--Decadent Influence of the Feudal Monarchy--Growth of the National Genius. VOLUME IV. Development and Decline of the Poetic Drama--Influence of the Court and the People. VOLUME V. The Constitutional Compromise of the Eighteenth Century--Effects of the Classical Renaissance--Its Zenith and Decline--The Early Romantic Renaissance. “It is his privilege to have made a contribution of great value and signal importance to the history of English Literature.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._ _PUBLISHED BY_ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Sixty-four and Sixty-six Fifth Avenue, New York RECENT POETRY DAWSON--The Worker and Other Poems BY CONINGSBY WILLIAM DAWSON _Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35_ “The volume cannot be opened anywhere without yielding verse that will repay the reading.”--_Courier-Journal._ FALLAW--Silverleaf and Oak BY LANCE FALLAW _Cloth, 12mo, $1.25_ In the title of this book “Silverleaf” stands for South Africa, and “Oak” for England. NEIDIG--The First Wardens POEMS BY WILLIAM J. NEIDIG A volume of unusual quality of imagination and style, strongly marked with the author’s individuality.--_Inter-Ocean._ IRWIN--Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers BY WALLACE IRWIN “Inimitable jingles, deftly apropos, droll and satiric, striking a humorous note that sounds of genius.”--_Philadelphia Press._