The Amateur Army Part 9

HERBERT JENKINS, LD. 12 ARUNDEL PLACE, LONDON, S.W.

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

SONGS OF THE DEAD END

POEMS BY PATRICK MACGILL

"Remarkable."--_Daily Express_.

"Work of real genius."--_Bookman_.

"This is a remarkable book."--_Graphic_.

"He can do things, can our navvy poet."--_The Clarion_.

"This extraordinary man of the people."--_Public Opinion_.

"The greatest poet since Kipling."--JAMES DOUGLAS, in _The Star_.

"Verses of remarkable vigour, variety and ability."--_Pall Mall Gazette_.

"MacGill's work is taking the literary world by storm."--_Morning Leader_.

"His poems show a power of direct observation and of strong emotion."--_Spectator_.

"We are at a loss to understand what manner of youth he is."--_Manchester Guardian_.

"The author has a very considerable gift."--ANDREW LANG, in _Ill.u.s.trated London News_.

"It is a life which has been an Odyssey, the picturesque life a tone poet can weather through as Mr. MacGill has done."--_Book Monthly_.

"The traits of an ardent, fearless personality, expressed in words of fire, are here again in all their lyrical richness.... The poet says:

'I sing my songs to you--and well, You'll maybe like them--who can tell?'

We do like them."--_Daily Chronicle_.

"When, in the terse vernacular of his calling, he gives voice to the sorrows and impatience, the humour and the resignation of his workmen comrades, and lets his songs find their own natural bent, then at length he attains real lyrical strength and sincerity.... For we need have no hesitation in hailing Mr. MacGill as a poet."--_Sunday Times_.