Jr. 7. Bradford

Wellerley Hills, Mass.
Aug. 25, 1915

SIDNEY LANIER'S BOOKS.

THE SCIENCE OF ENGLISH VERSE. Crown 8vo, $2.00. THE ENGLISH NOVEL AND THE PRINCIPLE OF ITS DEVELOPMENT. Crown 8vo, $2.00.

POEMS. Edited by his Wife, with a Memorial by William Hayes Ward. With portrait. New edition. 12mo, $2.00.

BOY'S LIBRARY OF LEGEND AND CHIVALRY. Edited by Sidney Lanier.

THE BOY'S FROISSART.

8vo, $2.00.

Illustrated by Alfred Kappes.

THE BOY'S KING ARTHUR. Illustrated by Alfred Kappes. 8vo, $2.00.

KNIGHTLY LEGENDS OF WALES; or, The Boy's Mabinogion. Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks. $2.00.

THE BOY'S PERCY. Illustrated by E. B. Bensell. 8vo, $2.00.

The Set, 4 vols., in a box, $7.00.

If... some perfect platform or Prosodia of versifying were . . . ratifyed and
sette downe. -WEBBE: Discourse of Eng. Poetrie.

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A Poet, no industrie can make, if his owne Genius bee not carried unto
it. . . . Yet ... must the highest flying wit have a Dedalus to guide him.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Apol. for Poetrie.

Gif Nature be nocht the cheif worker in this airt, Reulis wilbe bot a
band to Nature...
...; quhair as, gif Nature be cheif, and bent to it, reulis
will be ane help and staff. . . . - KING JAMES I.: Reulis and Cautilis, &c.

Poesie therefore may be an Art in our vulgar, and that verie methodicall
and commendable. — PUTTENHAM (?): Arte of Eng. Poesie.

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But the best conceptions cannot be, save where science and genius are. -
Trans. from DANTE: De Vul. Eloq.

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1893