place through stress of need for a mechanical help to the music.
The poem has its sound mind housed in a sound body."--PROFESSOR
MORLEY _in the Nineteenth Century_, February, 1878.

"I have read the 'Epic of Hades,' and find it truly charming. Its
pictures will long remain with me, and the music of its
words."--OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, April, 1884.

THE EPIC OF HADES.

_ILLUSTRATED QUARTO EDITION._

"Of Mr. Chapman's illustrations it is pleasant to be able to
speak with considerable admiration, not only because they are a
fortunate echo of the verse, and represent the feelings and
incidents of the 'Epic,' but because of their intrinsic merits.
There is in them a fine and high inspiration of an indefinite
sort."--_Athenaeum_, March 29th, 1879.

"'The Epic of Hades' is certainly one of the most remarkable
works of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Here is an
_edition de luxe_ which may possibly tempt the unthinking to
search for the jewel within the casket."--_World_, February 12th,
1879.

"The exquisite aerial feeling of 'Eros and Psyche,'--by far the
best of the drawings,--in which the figures seem literally to
float in ether. 'Laocoon' is grand and dignified, and all deserve
to be noticed with attention."--_Graphic_, January 25th, 1879.

"These designs of themselves would be of the highest value, and
when they are placed, as in this book, by way of illustration of
a text which is full of power, their value is not easily
estimated. The book ought to be one of the most cherished gifts
that any lover of poetry or the pencil could
desire."--_Scotsman_, January 23rd, 1879.

"The author has been most fortunate in his illustrator. The
designs are gems of drawing and conception, and the mezzotint is
admirably adapted to the style of drawing and subject. This is
truly a charming addition to the literary table. It is seldom one
sees figure illustrations of such graceful and powerful beauty,
and so thoroughly in sympathy with the visionary subjects of the
author."--_Art Journal_, April, 1879.

"'The Epic of Hades' has already won a place among the immortals.
The lovely and terrible figures of the Greek mythology have never
received a more exquisite consecration than at the hands of the
author, who, with the true divination of the poet, has known how
to in