“This edition, which was first published some twenty years ago, is the standard edition of these remarkable historical documents, and contains upwards of four hundred letters in addition to those published by Frere in 1823. The reprint is in three small and compact volumes, and should be welcome to students of history as giving an important work in a convenient form.”—_Scotsman._
“One of the monuments of English historical scholarship that needs no commendation.”—_Manchester Guardian._
“A volume which abounds in imaginative vision as well as intellectual strength.”—_Standard._
“His poems are achievements of the intellect ... there is wit in them and genius.”—_Scotsman._
“We hope that a large public will wake up to the high and serious beauties and the real genius of Mr. Meredith’s finest poetry.”—_St. James’s Gazette._
“These Selected Poems are a literary store.”—_Scotsman._
“There is in these new Poems a wider outlook, a greater breadth of sympathy than were discovered in their predecessors.”—_Globe._
“A true poet.... At any rate here unquestionably is a new poet, a wielder of beautiful words, a lover of beautiful things.”—I. ZANGWILL, in the _Cosmopolitan_, Sept., 1895.
“At least one book of poetry has been published this year that we can hand on confidently to other generations. It is not incautious to prophesy that Mr. Francis Thompson’s poems will last.”—_Sketch._
“Mr. Thompson’s new volume will be welcomed by all students and lovers of the more ambitious forms of poetry.”—_Glasgow Herald._
“Altogether the most complete, the most sympathetic, and the most penetrating estimate of Walt Whitman that has yet been written.”—_Daily Mail._
“It has undeniable beauty, and it would have been a pity if this and some of the shorter poems included in the same collection had not seen the light. Distinction of tone, careful craftsmanship, and a rich vocabulary characterise most of them.”—_Manchester Guardian._
“Touched with a dainty grace is “Baby-Land.” ... “A Reverie” in whose tender pathos and stately movement we find an abiding charm.”—_Literature._
A special feature of the 1898 edition of “THE CYCLISTS’ POCKET BOOK” is a list of Hotels offering advantages to Cyclists in town and country, also the “CYCLISTS’ TELEGRAPH CODE” (enlarged and improved).