rother to Calverley, and in modern times there has
been nothing so good of its sort as 'Tillers of the Sand.'... Mr.
Seaman proves himself so brilliant a jester that it needs must be he
takes the jester's privilege of offending no one."--_The Speaker_.

"One of the most accomplished writers of occasional verse
to-day."--_Bookman_.

"It is all so good that passages are hard to choose."--_Scotsman_.

"The author's rare quality--a capacity for satirizing one's political
opponents with a wit that leaves no wound."--Mr. JAMES PAYN in _The
Illustrated London News_.

"Brilliant and inimitable."--_Chicago Daily News_.

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"Here is no shouting, no banging of the bauble. The form of phrase,
the inflexion of voice, the dancing light of humour, make up the
motley which is the true jester's 'only wear'; and under his flashes
of merriment is a sober, sound philosophy. This, after all, is the
only kind of humour that lasts ... it is easy to appreciate, difficult
to acquire; and Mr. Owen Seaman, having acquired it with all the
felicity of good humour and art, stands practically alone among the
humourists of the hour.... His technical quality seems to strengthen
with every new volume."--Mr. ARTHUR WAUGH in _The St. James'
Gazette_.

"Clean laughter, and scholarly wit; polished metre, and humorous
phrase--these are to me the essential characteristics for which I am
invariably glad to read Mr. Owen Seaman."--Mr. THEODORE COOK in
_Literature_.

"The brilliant author of 'Cap and Bells' assumes, before the eyes of a
later generation, the mantle of Crawley, and does the same sort of
work more felicitously still."--_The Speaker_.

"At the end of the volume Mr. Seaman gives agreeable evidence that, in
the domain of memorial and complimentary verse, he has the knack of
combining felicity of phrase with a wholesome avoidance alike of
adulation and excess. The 'In Memoriam' lines to Lewis Carroll, with
the graceful reference to Sir John Tenniel, are particularly
happy."--_The Spectator_.

"Calverley had not, or did not show in his verses, Mr. Seaman's
critical acuteness and depth.... As a critic in the form of parody,
Mr. Seaman is without a rival.... Of his serious poems an ode to Queen
Wilhelmina is a very graceful accomplishment of a difficult
task."--Mr. G. S. STREET in _The Pall Mall Magazine_.

"Mr. Seaman is what we may call a critic of mann