scholarship, and with a modesty that is honorable to
his genius. That such a work as this might have been done differently I
can see; that it could have been done better I do not see at all.--R. H.
STODDARD, in _The Critic_, N. Y.

The special value of this collection is in the fact that it expresses
the taste and feeling of one of the most cultured men of this
generation, who, with a poet's sensibility, spent his whole life in the
companionship and atmosphere of books and authors. His judgment could be
trusted. His taste was almost unerring in literary matters. His
criticism was as keen as it was genial, and seemed to detect the faulty
and the false almost by instinct. It is a great privilege to have such a
man's selection of the poems in the English language worth preserving.
Mr. Sargent's work deserves special commendation for the exquisite
justice it does to living writers but little known. It is a volume of
rare and precious flowers, culled because of their intrinsic value,
without regard to the writers' fame.--_Evening Express_, N. Y.

Mr. Sargent was eminently fitted for the preparation of a work of this
kind. Few men possessed a wider or more profound knowledge of English
literature; and his judgment was clear, acute, and discriminating. * * *
The beautiful typography and other exterior charms broadly hint at the
rich feast of instruction and enjoyment which the superb volume is
eminently fitted to furnish.--_N. Y. Times._

We commend it highly. It contains so many of the notable poems of our
language, and so much that is sound poetry, if not notable, that it will
make itself a pleasure wherever it is found.--_N. Y. Herald._

A handsome volume, which will give the purest pleasure to great numbers
of hearts and households. * * * Most readers will find their favorite
poems, and selections from their favorite poets. * * * As a cyclopaedia
for reference, and a volume for general reading, it is both useful and
delightful.--_Observer_, N. Y.

We consider Mr. Sargent's "Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry"
the best of all such cyclopaedias in existence.--_Buffalo Express._

A poet himself of no mean reputation, and a man of large experience and
excellent taste in literature, he possessed just the qualities requisite
for the difficult task of sifting the great mass of British and American
poetry, and selecting not only the poems which were good in themselves,
but those which most fairly represent the genius