Selections illustrating the editor's critical review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. With brief biographies, an introduction, engraved title-page, and a photogravure frontispiece of a group of poets. Large crown 8vo, 850 pages, $3.00; full gilt, $3.50; half calf, $5.00.

This companion volume to "A Victorian Anthology" has been eagerly awaited since the appearance of the latter book in 1895-96. The English collection is in continuous demand, but, to American readers at least, this volume has even more elements of interest than its predecessor. The two books are uniform in shape, design, and editorial detail. The relation between "Victorian Poets" and "A Victorian Anthology" is repeated in that between "Poets of America" and "An American Anthology," except that in his new book Mr. Stedman has extended his view beyond the limit of the American critical treatise in order to represent the work of various recent poets. As a legacy from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, this final compilation thus derives a more inclusive value.

A book so purely American could not be better timed than at a crisis which bids fair to be the inauguration of a new era in all fields of our national life and art. It would be hard for the anthologist to find a range more inviting than is covered in these 850 pages, containing a record of our lyrical production from the early years of the nation to the present day.

On its technical side the work is, in logical and chronological order, the last of Mr. Stedman's remarkable series on modern poetry of the English tongue. "Nature and Elements of Poetry," "Victorian Poets," "Poets of America," "A Victorian Anthology," and "An American Anthology" form a group which henceforth must find a place in every well-chosen library.

POEMS

Household Edition. With Portrait and Illustrations.

12mo, bound in a new and attractive style, $1.50; full gilt, $2.00; half calf, $3.00.

A book which is to accumulate interest with time, and to be as precious in the next century and in the next as it is in this. Christian Union.

His poetry is fresh and buoyant, full of memories of great deeds and joyous experiences, and seems to contain the elements of lasting popularity. The Academy (London).

Including "Poems," "Victorian Poets," "Poets of America," and "The Nature and Elements of Poetry." 4 vols. uniform, crown 8vo, in box, $7.50; half calf, $13.00.

HAWTHORNE AND AND OTHER POEMS 16mo, $1.25.

POEMS NOW FIRST COLLECTED 12mo, gilt top, $1.50.

In sentiment, in form, and in their power to enter into human feeling and express it felicitously, which is the secret of the true poet, as well as in that musicalness of utterance without which even a true poet fails to do himself justice, the distinguished author reaches some of his highest successes. -The Congregationalist (Boston).

A volume of beautiful work. . . . The most notable of Mr. Stedman's poetical gifts is the singing inspiration and expression, with the instinctive good taste which insists upon grace and beauty and finish, - the perfection of his measures and the purity of his English. New York Mail and Express.

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