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OLRIG GRANGE,
A Poem in Six Books. Edited byHermann Kunst, Philol. Professor.
The Tatler in Cambridge.
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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.”
New Poem, by the author of “Olrig Grange.”
AUSTEN LYELL. A Poem in Six Books.
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SONGS AND FABLES.
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HILLSIDE RHYMES:
among the rocks he went,and still looked up to sun and cloudand listened to the wind.
among the rocks he went,and still looked up to sun and cloudand listened to the wind.
among the rocks he went,and still looked up to sun and cloudand listened to the wind.
Scotsman.
“Let anyone who cares for fine reflective poetry read for 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. ByJohn 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.”
Glasgow: JAMES MACLEHOSE, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY.LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO.