*The Story of a Round-House, and other Poems*
"John Masefield has produced the finest literature of the year."--J. W.
BARRIE.
"John Masefield is the most interesting poetic personality of the
day."--_The Continent_.
"Ah! the story of that rounding the Horn! Never in prose has the sea
been so tremendously described."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
"Masefield's new book attracts the widest attention from those who in
any degree are interested in the quality of present-day
literature."--_Boston Transcript_.
"A remarkable poem of the sea."--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
"Vivid and thrillingly realistic."--_Current Literature_.
"A genuine sailor and a genuine poet are a rare combination; they have
produced a rare poem of the sea, which has made Mr. Masefield's position
in literature secure beyond the reach of caviling."--_Everybody's
Magazine_.
"Masefield has prisoned in verse the spirit of life at sea."--_N. Y.
Sun_.
"There is strength about everything Masefield writes that compels the
feeling that he has an inward eye on which he draws to shape new films
of old pictures. In these pictures is freshness combined with power,
which form the keynotes of his poetry."--_N. Y. Globe_.
*Fires*
*By W. W. GIBSON*
Author of "Daily Bread," "Womenkind," etc.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net_
In this striking book of verse Mr. Gibson writes of simple, homely folk
with touching sympathy. The author's previous book, "Daily Bread," was
heralded far and wide as the book of the year in the field of poetry; in
"Fires" are contained many of the same characteristics which
distinguished it. The story of a girl whose lover is struck dead by a
flying bit of stone; of a wife who has unusual patience with her
husband's shortcomings; of a flute player; of a shop and a shopkeeper;
of a machine and those who feed it--these are the subjects of a number
of the separate pieces.
_*BY THE SAME AUTHOR*_
*Daily Bread*
_In Three Books 12mo, $1.25 net_
*Womenkind*
_12mo, $1.25 net_
"There is a man in England who with sufficient plainness and sufficient
profoundness is addressing himself to life, and daring to chant his own
times and social circumstances, who ought to become known to America.
He is bringing a message which might well rouse his day and generation
to an understanding of and a sympathy with life's disinherited--the
overworked masses."
"A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, is
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom Canon
Cheyne wrote: 'A new poet of the people has risen up among us--the story
of a soul is written as plainly in "Daily Bread" as in "The Divine
Comedy" and in "Paradise Lost."'"
"Mr. Gibson is a genuine singer of his own day, and turns into appealing
harmony the world's harshly jarring notes of poverty and
pain."--_Abridged from an article in "The Outlook."_
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