TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE- 1. Dedicatory Sonnet II. Selection from "The Sailing of the Swallow SONNET: "Hope and Fear" A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS-- 11. In Guernsey DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) EMPEDOCLES THE LUGGIE- Winter (a selection) THE HAREBELL. Sonnets I., II., and III. IN THE SHADOWS- MY EPITAPH James Ashcroft Noble 355 357 361 365 367 368 369 370 HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE (1839)J. A. Blaikie 371 Alfred H. Miles 391 395 400 408 A LOST MORNING AUSTIN DOBSON (1840) OLD-WORLD Idylls— I. A Dead Letter 11. The Ballad of " Beau Brocade PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN- "Good Night, Babette " FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART- The Poet and the Critics WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840) SONNETS AND SONGS- 1. In the Night . Richard le Gallienne 425 II. Sonnets-The Sublime III. At a Funeral. THE LOVE-SONNETS OF PROTEUS- 439 439 440 440 441 441 1. To Manon, comparing Her to a Falcon IV. Farewell to Juliet: "Farewell, then " vi. On the Shortness of Time IN VINCULIS- SONNETS " 442 1. "From Caiaphas to Pilate I was sent 444 II. "To-day there is no cloud upon thy face" The Crocus and the Soldanella. Winter Nights in the High Alps, I.". Winter Nights in the High Alps, II. Winter Nights in the High Alps, III. William Morris. 1834-1896. WILLIAM MORRIS was born at Walthamstow on the 24th of March, 1834, and died at Hammersmith on the 3rd of October, 1896. He was educated at Marlborough and at Exeter College, Oxford; and in 1856 he was articled to the late George Edmund Street, the architect. His early sympathies with what is noblest in architecture may be traced in his literary work of this period, preserved in a remarkable periodical in which he was associated with several brilliant young contemporaries. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, founded, and supported so far as funds are concerned, by Morris, was also largely indebted to his pen for its contents; and it was during the year 1856, in which its twelve numbers appeared, that he made a solid start in literature. The magazine contains poems of his, critical papers, and a series of notable prose stories. It is in some of these that he showed, in a dreamy and sensitive way, the keen sympathy with the craftsmen of the middle ages that in later years led him into the eager polemics of that practical undertaking, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, dreaded, though not yet sufficiently dreaded, by the destructive Philistine. Those early stories, though crude in form, bear unmistakable marks of genius; and no man of judgment reading them as the work of a youth of one or two and |