PRINTED IN CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS AND SOLD IN LONDON BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & Co If the mental attitude of any critic has ever, in his approach to a first book of verse, been conciliated by an appreciative notice from some older pen, I should say (speaking out of no little experience) that either the author was dead and the fact advertised in the preface, or, alternatively, that the critic was possessed by a gentler spirit than mine. I am sure at any rate that artistic work, great or small, should be sternly judged on what it is rather than on what it promises. The late J. Comyns Carr, in the days when he wrote dramatic criticism, let loose this restive truth in a c…
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