Wayside Thoughts in Ballad and other Verse. By TWO TRAMPS.
“This is a collection of short pieces, most of which can fairly be
considered poetry--no slight merit, as verses run just now. Some of
the pieces are singularly pathetic and mournful; others, though in
serious guise, are permeated by quaint humour; and all of them are of
considerable merit. From the variety and excellence of the contents
of this bundle of poetical effusions, it is likely to attract a great
number of readers, and many passages in it are particularly suitable
for recitation.”--_Army and Navy Gazette_, Aug. 14, 1886.
“But ‘Low Down,’ as it is called, has the distinction of being
multi-coloured, each sheet of eight pages consisting of paper of a
special hue. To turn over the leaves is, in fact, to enjoy a sort of
kaleidoscopic effect, a glimpse of a literary rainbow. Moreover, to
complete the peculiarity of the thing, the various poems are printed,
apparently at haphazard, in large or small type, as the case may be.
There are those, perhaps, who would take such jokes too seriously,
and bring them solemnly to the bar of taste, there to be as solemnly
condemned. But that is scarcely the right spirit in which to regard
them. There is room in life for the quaint and curious as well as for
the neat and elegant.”--_Globe._
_2 vols., cloth, price 6s._