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Westminster Review.

"If there is any taste left in us for subtle wit, delicate humour, happy rhymes, and well-turned expressions, Vignettes in Rhyme ought to be the

most popular book of the day. There is not a piece in the book which is not graceful."

Spectator.

"Mr. Dobson gives us something | playfulness when it is tender are both more than the tone and manner of cultivated social life, with its vivid ripple of thought and feeling. Tenderness when it is playful and

perfectly given in this charming little book, which contains also an exquisite sense of natural beauty."

Saturday Review.

"Even if his Vignettes in Rhyme | among a heap of cast-away clothes has had come by itself we should have given it a kindly welcome. But we picked it up out of a pile of the most worthless among the Minor Poets, and we felt as grateful as ever feels a man who in the pocket of some garment

found a bright new shilling. . .
... Mr.
Dobson, however, is more than a mere
versifier. In two or three of his poems
he shows a skill in painting with his
pen that might raise the envy of many
of his rival artists with the brush."

Athenæum.

"His Vignettes are really clever, clear-cut, and careful."

Examiner.

"As a writer of vers de société it is not too much to say that Mr. Dobson is almost, if not quite, unrivalled."

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"The book . . . has the right kind of charm and grace, and holds the atten

tion with a pleasant force."

VIGNETTES IN RHYME

AND VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ

BY

AUSTIN DOBSON

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THIRD EDITION.

HENRY S. KING & CO.,

65 CORNHILL AND 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.

1875.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF

EVERT JANSEN WENDELL 1918

(All Rights reserved.)

ANTHONY

ΤΟ

TROLLOPE,

THESE VERSES

ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.

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