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_OLRIG GRANGE_,
A Poem in Six Books. Edited by HERMANN KUNST,
Philol. Professor.
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inexhaustible; but I must beg my Readers, if they want to have
a great Deal of Amusement, as well as much Truth beautifully
put, to go and order the Book at once. I promise them they will
not repent.”
The Examiner.
“The demoralizing influence of our existing aristocratic
institutions, on the most gifted and noblest members of
the aristocracy has never been so subtly and so powerfully
delineated as in ‘Olrig Grange.’”
The Pall Mall Gazette.
“‘Olrig Grange,’ whether the work of a raw or of a ripe
versifier, is plainly the work of a ripe and not a raw student
of life and nature.... It has dramatic power of a quite
uncommon class; satirical and humorous observation of a class
still higher, and a very pure and healthy, if perhaps a little
too scornful, moral atmosphere.”
The Spectator.
“The story is told in powerful and suggestive verse. The
composition is instinct with quick and passionate feeling,
to a degree that attests the truly poetic nature of the man
who produced it.... The author exhibits a fine and firm
discrimination of character, a glowing and abundant fancy, a
subtle eye to read the symbolism of nature, and great wealth
and mastery of language, and he has employed it for worthy
purposes.”
The Academy.
“The pious self-pity of the worldly mother, and the despair of
the worldly daughter, are really brilliantly put.”
“The story is worked out with quite uncommon power.”
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_HILLSIDE RHYMES_:
AMONG THE ROCKS HE WENT,
AND STILL LOOKED UP TO SUN AND CLOUD
AND LISTENED TO THE WIND.
Scotsman.
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himself and judge. Besides the solid substance of thought which
pervades it, he will find here and there those quick insights,
those spontaneous felicities of language which distinguish the
man of natural power from the man of mere cultivation.... Next
to an autumn day among the hills themselves commend us to poems
like these, in which so much of the finer breath and spirit of
those pathetic hills is distilled into melody.”
Glasgow Herald.
“The author of ‘Hillside Rhymes’ has lain on the hillsides,
and felt the shadows of the clouds drift across his half-shut
eyes. He knows the sough of the fir-trees, the crooning of the
burns, the solitary bleating of the moorland sheep, the quiet
of a place where the casual curlew is his only companion, and a
startled grouse-cock the only creature that can regard him with
enmity or suspicion. The silence of moorland nature has worked
into his soul, and his verse helps a reader pent within a city
to realize the breezy heights, the sunny knolls, the deepening
glens, or the slopes aglow with those crackling flames with
which the shepherds fire the heather.”
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_HANNIBAL_:
A Historical Drama. By JOHN NICHOL, B.A., Oxon.,
Professor of English Language and Literature in the University
of Glasgow.
The Saturday Review.
“After the lapse of many centuries, an English Poet is found
paying to the great Carthaginian the worthiest poetical tribute
which has as yet, to our knowledge, been offered to his noble
and stainless name.”
The Athenæum.
“Probably the best and most accurate conception of Hannibal
ever yet given in English. Professor Nichol has done a really
valuable work. From first to last of the whole five acts there
is hardly a page that sinks to the level of mediocrity.”
The Dublin Telegraph.
“Professor Nichol has just given us a volume which bids fair to
open a new era in poetry, and secures to the author a position
among the first poets of the day.”
The Morning Post.
“Glasgow has good reason to be proud of her Professor of
English Literature, in which he now takes a prominent place by
right of his admirable classic drama. Criticism will award him
a regal seat on Parnassus, and laurel leaves without stint.”
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