[Gutenberg 48439] • A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon / Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... A catalogue of Messrs. Methuen's publications Poetry Rudyard Kipling. barrack-room ballads. By Rudyard Kipling. 55M Thousand. Crown Svo. 6s. 'Mr. Kipling's verse is strong, vivid, full of character.... Unmistakeable genius rings in every line.'--Times. 'The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is? '-Pall Mall Gazette. Rudyard Kipling. the seven seas. By Rudyard Kipling. oflth Thousand. Cr. 8vo. Buckram, gilt lop. 6s. 'The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their predecessors. Patriotism is the solid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has built the whole of his work.'--Times. 'The Empire has found a singer; it is no depreciation of the songs to say that statesmen may have, one way or other, to take account of them.'--Manchester Guardian. 'Animated through and through with indubitable genius.'--Daily Telegraph. "Q." poems and ballads. By "Q." Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry.'--Speaker. "Q." green bays: Verses and Parodies. By "Q." Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. E. Mackay. A song of the sea, By Eric Mackay. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. $s. 'Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the characteristics of the best rhetoric.'--Globe. H. Ibsen. brand, A Drama by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by