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Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
Masefield's Works. Rough sea stories-in-verse like Dauber, long homely narratives such as The Everlasting Mercy and exciting ones like Right Royal and Reynard the Fox, shorter, more spiritual pieces such as The Passing Strange, these with a bagful of sonnets more notable for content than form comprise the works of the new Laureate, symbol of a new order...
...Reynard the Fox has been given the Laureate's Chair by the King; Dauber has left the salt sea for the National Muse; King Cole has been given a throne...
...royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world can afford. Let Reynard the Fox still run in the forest, and Dauber, occasionally at least, set out to sea again...
...interest are original parts from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," and "Christmas Books" and an inkwell, which he used. There will be two volumes printed by the Kelmscott press, that of William Morris's, which holds the reputation of having produced some of the world's finest printing. The one is "Reynard the Fox" and the other an edition of Chauncer illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones...