TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE- 1. Dedicatory Sonnet "" 11. Selection from "The Sailing of the Swallow SONNET: "Hope and Fear" A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS- 1. To Catullus 11. In Guernsey THE LUGGIE- Winter (a selection) Sonnets I., II., and III. OLD AND NEW ROME DAVID GRAY (1838-1861). James Ashcroft Noble 355 EMPEDOCLES 357 AUSTIN DOBSON (1840) 11. The Ballad of "Beau Brocade " PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN- HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE (1839) J. A. Blaikie 371 THE WHITE PILGRIM- 1. The Sunset Winter. 353 353 361 365 367 368 369 370 375 379 381 387 389 Alfred H. Miles 391 378 378 395 400 408 VIGNETTES IN RHYME- 1. A Song of the Four Seasons FABLES OF LITERATURE AND ART- SONNETS AND SONGS- 1. In the Night II. Sonnets-The Sublime THE LOVE-SONNETS OF PROTEUS- IV. Farewell to Juliet: "Farewell, then v. Laughter and Death VI. On the Shortness of Time SONNETS sorrow" WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840) 1. To Manon, comparing Her to a Falcon clusion" . • 431 434 435 439 • 439 PAGE 411 416 440 440 • 441 417 418 419 IN VINCULIS- SONNETS I. "From Caiaphas to Pilate I was sent " 442 "" II. "There are two voices with me in the night" 442 443 A NEW PILGRIMAGE- 421 423 424 1. "Ah Paris, Paris!" 444 II. "To-day there is no cloud upon thy face 446 THE IDLER'S CALENDAR- II. November FROM THE ARABIC- The Camel-Rider. POSTHUMOUS ANY SOUL TO ANY BODY. A DEAD MARCH. 449 COSMO MONKHOUSE (1840-1901) R. le Gallienne 453 THE CHIEF RINGER'S BURIAL 455 THE NIGHT EXPRESS 457 460 461 (A Christmas Carol) LE JEUNE HOMME CARESSANT SA CHIMÈRE 1. "Back to thy Books II. "Give freely to the Friend thou hast " T. Herbert Warren 477 PAGE 447 448 463 467 470 473 475 476 476 483 485 486 489 490 491 492 493 493 494 495 497 501 502 THE LOVE TALE OF ODATIS- AMONG THE MOUNTAINS- The Crocus and the Soldanella. SONNETS- Winter Nights in the High Alps, I.". Winter Nights in the High Alps, III. MISCELLANEOUS- I. The Grave of Omar Khayyam III. O si, O si, Otiosi IV. To Prometheus v. The Chorister VI. A Dream of Burial in Mid-Ocean ROBERT BUCHANAN (1841-1901) IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF INVERBURN- The Dead Mother. LONDON POEMS- 1. Artist and Model III. Tiger Bay NORTH COAST, AND OTHEer Poems- THE BOOK OF ORM- 1. The Dream of the World without Death MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND BALLADS- 1. The Lights of Leith II. The Wedding of Shon Maclean III. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot 514 514 515 515 516 516 J. A. Noble 517 509 512 512 513 513 527 531 537 543 549 554 563 575 583 590 " 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 |