e experience; a
profound study of the many problems of life; a clear insight
into human nature; and the book as a whole ranks among the best
gifts which the press has in recent years bestowed upon
us."--_Leeds Mercury_, November 21st, 1883.

"There is not one of these 'Songs Unsung' which does not deserve
to be read and re-read."--_Glasgow Herald_, November 16th, 1883.

"In Mr. Morris's new volume we recognize the old qualities which
are so dear to his wide circle of admirers."--_Daily News_,
December 4th, 1883.

"We may safely predict as warm a welcome for the new volume as
has been accorded to its predecessors."--_Ecclesiastical
Gazette_, November 15th, 1883.

"Those who have followed Mr. Morris's career will be pleased to
find that his poetic grasp, his argumentative subtlety, his
tenderness of sympathetic observation, his manly earnestness, are
as conspicuous and impressive as before."--MR. BAYNE, _in the
Helensburgh Times._

"The reputation earned by the author's books has been such as few
men in a century are permitted to enjoy. Beginning with the first
volume, it has gone on increasing."--_Liverpool Mercury_,
November 9th, 1883.

"For ourselves we dare hardly say how high we rank Mr. Morris.
This last volume is deserving of highest praise. In some of its
contents no living poet, to our mind can surpass him."--_Oxford
University Herald_, March 8th, 1884.

"The gems of this volume, to our mind, are some of the shorter
poems, which are full of melody and colour, saturated with
lyrical feeling, and marked by that simplicity without which no
poem of this class can be called great."--_British Quarterly
Review_, January, 1884.

"The writer is never diffuse or vague or pointless, both his road
and the end of it are always in view."--_New York Critic_,
January 19th, 1884.

"In one sense 'Songs Unsung' is more typical of Mr. Morris's
genius than any of his previous works. There is in them the same
purity of expression, the same delicate fancy, the same mastery
of technique, and withal the same loftiness of
conception."--_Scotsman_, December 22nd, 1883.

"In some respects we must award him the distinction of having a
clearer perception of the springs of nineteenth-century existence
than any of his contemporaries.... What could be more magnificent