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                                AMPHORA
                "Blue Cloth, Gold Design, 80 pp.  price "2s. 6d."
              Published by BURNS & OATES, 28 Orchard St., W.
      This wonderful collection of Hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary
        is the work (so it is said) of a Leading London Actress.
     Father Kent writes in "The Tablet": "Among the many books which
  benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate Christmas presents we
  notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics.  But few, we fancy,
  can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original
  verses, entitled 'Amphora,' which Messrs. Burns and Oates are on the point
  of publishing.  The following stanzas from a poem on the Nativity will
  surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical
  appreciation.  "The Virgin lies at Bethlehem.
     (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh!)
   The root of David shoots a stem.
     (O Holy Spirit, shadow her!)
   She lies alone amid the kine.
     (Bring gold and frankincense and Myrrh!)
   The straw is fragrant as with wine.
     (O Holy Spirit shadow her!)"
     Lieut.-Col. Gormley writes: "The hymns ordinarily used in churches for
  devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can
  scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much
  literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar
  nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a
  pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the Virgin Mary which has just been
  published by Messrs. Burns and Oats.  These hymns to the Virgin Mary are in
  the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to Roman
  Catholics, for whom devotion to the Virgin Mary forms so important part of
  their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally I
  have found them just what I desired, and I have no doubt other Catholics
  will be equally pleased with them."
     "Vanity Fair" says: "To the ordinary mind passion has no relation to
  penitence, and carnal desire is the very antithesis of spiritual fervour.
  But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate
  connection between the forces of the body and the soul; and the student of
  psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and
  sinner.  Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the
  same soul.  Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and
  with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the
  mystic Rose.  In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine,
  has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side
  with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecstatic
  than anything that has come down to us from the Ages of Faith.  We are all,
  as Sainte-Beuve said, 'children of a sensual literature,' and perhaps for
  that reason we should expect from our singers fervent religious hymns.
     "There is one of London's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her
  art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness.  Now
  she sends us a book, 'Amphora,' a volume of religious verse: it contains
  song after song in praise of Mary," etc. etc. etc.
     The "Scotsman" says: "Outside the Latin Church conflicting views are
  held about the worship of the Virgin, but there can be no doubt that this
  motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature,
  and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'Hail,
  Mary.'  This little book is best described here as a collection of such
  variations.  They are written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of
  feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest
  and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it
  religiously impossible not to admire them."
     The "Daily Telegraph" says:  "In this slight volume we have the
  utterances of a devout anonymous Roman Catholic singer, in a number of
  songs or hymns addressed to the Virgin Mary.  The author, who has evidently
  a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to
  her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each ---
  thus providing a song for each week of the year.  The songs are all of
  praise or prayer addressed to the Virgin, and, through many have a touch of
  mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestness of devotion
  that will commend them to the author's co-religionists."

                           A GREEN GARLAND
                          By V. B. NEUBURG
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        "As far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume something
  more than mere promise; the performance is at times remarkable; there is
  beauty not only of thought and invention --- and the invention is of a
  positive kind --- but also of expression and rhythm.  There is a lilt in
  Mr. Neuburg's poems; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel
  that impulse." --- "The Morning Post, May 21, 1908"
        "There is a certain given power in some of the imaginings concerning
  death, as 'The Dream' and 'the Recall,' and any reader with a liking for
  verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his
  taste." --- "The Daily Telegraph, May 29, 1908."
        "Here is a poet of promise." --- "The Daily Chronicle, May 13, 1908."
        "It is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily
  as in this little book." --- "The Morning Leader, July 10, 1908."
       There is promise and some fine lines in these verses." --- "The Times,"
  "July 11, 1908."
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       "Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is
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        "Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the
  Tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose's perfume: you have set
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  'So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced
  demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.'  Yes, but the
  phenomenon shall it be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction
  still to be interpreted in terms of God and the Psyche?  We shall reward
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  Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a  universe."
   "John Bull," in the course of a long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN"
       "The author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist
  and a philosopher.  For pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse
  esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his
  readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit.  I was
  unlucky  to begin reading him at breakfast and I was moved to so much laughter that
  I watered my bread with my tears and barely escaped a convulsion."
   "The Times"
       "The Light wherein he writes is the L.V.X. of that, which first
  mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness
  caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. ... It is one
  of the most suggestive definitions of KONX --- the LVX of the Brethren of
  the Rosy Cross --- that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites.
  Nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that LVX.
  But to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as
  spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of Flatland."
   "The Literary Guide"
       "He is a lofty idealist.  He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven.
  'Konx Om Pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in
  eccentricity.  A prettily-told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has
  'explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent' --- which
  notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing --- together with a weird
  preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages.  The best poetry in the
  book is contained in the last section --- 'The Stone of the Philosophers.'
  Here is some fine work."

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