SCOTSMAN. — " Every lover of this kind of poetry should read it with both interest and admiration.'
OBSERVER.— "The author has a distinct sense of rhythm, and writes with a cultured fervour and distinction."
MORNING LEADER. — " His poetry has tremendous vigour, and its force alone is a notable quality...it never lacks point and definiteness."
BYSTANDER. — " Mr. Ainslie is obviously in love with his subject, and the verse is worthy of the theme."
CA THOLIC FIELD.—" Few who take up the book will lay it down without reading to the end, and none but will be stirred and stimulated by the strong human strokes that on every page strike fire from the bedrock of our common sympathies."
MOMENTS Price is. net; Cloth, 2s. 6d. net. SOME PRESS OPINIONS T.P.'S WEEKLY.— "Nearly every poem has thought that was worth expressing and the expression is musical and distinguished."
TRUTH.—" A charming little booklet of verse...The Stewart poems seem to us specially stirring and raise high expectations."
DAILY EXPRESS.—11 Mr. Ainslie is another real poet...His verse is musical and full of happy phrases and imagery. " MORNING POST.—" He certainly has qualities which will not fail to find apprecia tion. He has distinctly original ideas."
GLASGOW HERALD.— "The verse runs on like a brook, so that its rippling almost makes one shut the ears to its subtlety or depth of suggestion. Delicate in texture, it is often packed with significance...Betokens a writer with the true (lyric gift and genuine poetic insight."
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By DOUGLAS AINSLIE MIRAGE Price 35. 6d. net SOME PRESS OPINIONS EVENING STANDARD.— "The work of a scholar, these poems are beautifully made. Form, a little despised by some of our young in dividual poets, is treated with respect: a pretty sight."
GLASGOW HERALD.— "Of Mr. Ainslie's qualifications as a poet there can be no question; as little can there be of the high quality of his verse. At his best he attains a singular clearness, the clearness of primary colour, of pure water, or of crystal, the clearness of sure vision which is the condition of completed imaginative effort."
NATION. — "Mr. Ainslie's poetry is interesting...we do feel the presence in it of a determination to use poetry for some vital purpose, some attempt, not to escape from modern life into cells of exquisite beauty, but to interpret into poetic form and feeling at least the consciousness of human destiny."
TIMES. — " These are the poems of a man of taste and culture, always interesting."
MORNING POST.—" Mr. Ainslie is ' the perfect Phyllistine.' Phyllis is wooed with sapphics at Versailles, Oenone with album-verses in Mayfair, Violet with Neapolitan quatrains, and Daphne with diamonds."
DAIL Y CHRONICLE.—1 ' Mr. Ainslie is a good story-teller; but he uses the ballad as his vehicle, instead of dramatic blank verse. There is a rhythm and a swing in his ballads that carries us along, and a power of narration."
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THE SONG OF THE STEWARTS CANTO I.
The first Canto takes up the narrative where the Prelude leaves off, and deals with the most luminous events of the reigns of Robert II. and of David II., the „,* first Stewart Kings of Scots.
The system of a series of poems in different metres, such as was carried out in the Prelude, is here again adopted, and the first Canto will be issued in a form similar to that of the Prelude.
[To be published shortly.
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