The persons and events described in the poem are entirely imaginary, and no reference is made or intended to any living person. JOHN MASEFIELD. 10*th May* 1912. THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH * * * * * * * * JOHN MASEFIELD THE EVERLASTING MERCY Fifth Impression. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS "Mr Masefield is to be congratulated on a remarkable achievement--a vital portrait of a man, the drama of a great spiritual conquest, and many passages of high beauty."--_Spectator_. "This is probably the most important addition to English religious poetry since Francis Thompson wrote ’The Hound of Heaven.’ ’The Everlasting Mercy’ is the story of a conversion; not the ’interesting’ conversion of some cultured and introspective Agnostic, full of wise saws and modern instances, but the sensational, primitive, catastrophic conversion of a village wastrel, violent alike in body, mind and soul--a drunkard, poacher, bully and libertine.... In it Mr Masefield has accomplished two separate things. He has written a superb poem, swift in its pace and vivid in its phrasing, and produced as well a psychological document of surpassing interest.... He has brought the flaming torch of beauty to light the dry processes of the religious psychologist."--EVELYN UNDERHILL in _The Daily News_. "Here, beyond question, in ’The Everlasting Mercy,’ is a great poem, as true to the essentials of its ancient art as it is astoundingly modern in its method; a poem, too, which ’every clergyman in the country ought to read as a revelation of the heathenism still left in the land.’ ... Its technical force is on a level with its high, inspiring thought. It makes the reader think; it goads him to emotion; and it leaves him alive with a fresh appreciation of the wonderful capacity of human nature to receive new influences and atone for old and apparently ineradicable wrongs."--ARTHUR WAUGH in _The Daily Chronicle_. JOHN MASEFIELD THE TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT Library Edition, 3s. 6d. net; paper wrappers, 1s. 6d. net Second Impression "Fine, nervous, dramatic English. Words which eat into the soul, which have a meaning, which are revelatory of character. A fine virility about the whole play and its conception. An altogether admirable piece of writing which fully justifies Mr Masefield’s real literary distinction."--_Observer_. "In this Roman tragedy, while we admire its closely knit structure, dramatic effectiveness, and atmosphere of reality ... the warmth and colour of the diction are the most notable things.... He knows the art of phrasing; he has the instinct for and by them."--_Athenaeum_.