THE GOLDEN WEDDING

The day but not the bride is come,

As in her blossom-time;

But golden lights sustain the home

She cherished in her prime.

May we not call upon the band?

May we not ask the priest?

Our golden wedding is at hand,

And we shall hold a feast.

But where is he in snow-white stole

Who the old service read,

That made us one in heart and soul?

Long, long has he been dead.

The bridesmaids clad in silken fold

Who waited on the bride,

Where are they now? Their tale is told:

Long, long ago they died.

155Where is the groomsman, chosen friend,

The true, the well-beloved;

His term, alas! is at an end;

Too soon was he removed.

Where is the bride, ah! such a bride

As every joy foretells?

I see her walking by my side,

I hear the wedding-bells.

Where is she now? That we should say

She did not live to know

How passed her silver wedding-day,

So many years ago!

But come, and for your mother’s sake,

Though vain it were to weep,

Let us the silent feast partake,

Her golden wedding keep.

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty, at the Edinburgh University Press.

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1894

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‘Bodleian, London’

A word must be said for the manner in which the publishers have produced the volume (i.e. “The Earth Fiend”), a sumptuous folio, printed by Constable, the etchings on Japanese paper by Mr. Goulding. The volume should add not only to Mr. Strang’s fame but to that of Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, who are rapidly gaining distinction for their beautiful editions of belles-lettres.’—Daily Chronicle, Sept. 24, 1892.

Referring to Mr. Le Gallienne’s ‘English Poems’ and ‘Silhouettes’ by Mr. Arthur Symons:—‘We only refer to them now to note a fact which they illustrate, and which we have been observing of late, namely, the recovery to a certain extent of good taste in the matter of printing and binding books. These two books, which are turned out by Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, are models of artistic publishing, and yet they are simplicity itself. The books with their excellent printing and their very simplicity make a harmony which is satisfying to the artistic sense.’—Sunday Sun, Oct. 2, 1892.

‘Mr. Le Gallienne is a fortunate young gentleman. I don’t know by what legerdemain he and his publishers work, but here, in an age as stony to poetry as the ages of Chatterton and Richard Savage, we find the full edition of his book sold before publication. How is it done, Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane? for, without depreciating Mr. Le Gallienne’s sweetness and charm, I doubt that the marvel would have been wrought under another publisher. These publishers, indeed, produce books so delightfully that it must give an added pleasure to the hoarding of first editions.’—Katharine Tynan in The Irish Daily Independent.

‘To Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane almost more than to any other, we take it, are the thanks of the grateful singer especially due; for it is they who have managed, by means of limited editions and charming workmanship, to impress book-buyers with the belief that a volume may have an æsthetic and commercial value. They have made it possible to speculate in the latest discovered poet, as in a new company—with the difference that an operation in the former can be done with three half-crowns.’

St. James’s Gazette.

January 1894.

List of Books

IN

BELLES LETTRES

(Including some Transfers)

PUBLISHED BY

Elkin Mathews and John Lane

The Bodley Head

VIGO STREET, LONDON, W.

N.B.—The Authors and Publishers reserve the right of reprinting any book in this list if a second edition is called for, except in cases where a stipulation has been made to the contrary, and of printing a separate edition of any of the books for America irrespective of the numbers to which the English editions are limited. The numbers mentioned do not include the copies sent for review or to the public libraries.

ADAMS (FRANCIS).

Essays in Modernity. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

ALLEN (GRANT).

The Lower Slopes: A Volume of Verse. 600 copies. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Immediately.

ANTÆUS.

The Backslider and other Poems. 100 only. Small 4to. 7s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

BEECHING (H. C.), J. W. MACKAIL, & J. B. B. NICHOLS.

Love in Idleness. With Vignette by W. B. Scott. Fcap. 8vo, half vellum. 12s. net.

[Very few remain.

Transferred by the Authors to the present Publishers.

BENSON (ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER).

Poems. 550 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

BENSON (EUGENE).

From the Asolan Hills: A Poem. 300 copies. Imp. 16mo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

BINYON (LAURENCE).

Poems. 16mo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

BOURDILLON (F. W.).

A Lost God: A Poem. With Illustrations by H. J. Ford. 500 copies. 8vo. 6s. net.

[Very few remain.

BOURDILLON (F. W.).

Ailes d’Alouette. Poems printed at the private press of Rev. H. Daniel, Oxford. 100 only. 16mo. £1, 10s. net.

[Not published.

BRIDGES (ROBERT).

The Growth of Love. Printed in Fell’s old English type at the private press of Rev. H. Daniel, Oxford. 100 only. Fcap. 4to. £2, 12s. 6d. net.

[Not published.

COLERIDGE (HON. STEPHEN).

The Sanctity of Confession: A Romance. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. net.

[A few remain.

CRANE (WALTER).

Renascence: A Book of Verse. Frontispiece and 38 designs by the Author.

[Small paper edition out of print.

There remain a few large paper copies, fcap. 4to. £1, 1s. net. And a few fcap. 4to, Japanese vellum. £1, 15s. net.

CROSSING (WM.).

The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor. With 11 plates. 8vo, cloth. 4s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

DAVIDSON (JOHN).

Plays: An Unhistorical Pastoral; A Romantic Farce; Bruce, a Chronicle Play; Smith, a Tragic Farce; Scaramouch in Naxos, a Pantomime, with a Frontispiece, Title-page, and Cover Design by Aubrey Beardsley. 500 copies. Small 4to. 7s. 6d. net.

[Immediately.

DAVIDSON (JOHN).

Fleet Street Eclogues. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, buckram. 5s. net.

DAVIDSON (JOHN).

A Random Itinerary: Prose Sketches, with a Ballad. Frontispiece, Title-page, and Cover Design by Laurence Housman. Fcap. 8vo. Uniform with ‘Fleet Street Eclogues.’ 5s. net.

DAVIDSON (JOHN).

The North Wall. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

The few remaining copies transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

DE GRUCHY (AUGUSTA).

Under the Hawthorn, and other Verses. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. 300 copies. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

Also 30 copies on Japanese vellum. 15s. net.

DE TABLEY (LORD).

Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical. By John Leicester Warren (Lord De Tabley). Illustrations and Cover Design by C. S. Ricketts. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

DIAL (THE).

No. 1 of the Second Series. Illustrations by Ricketts, Shannon, Pissarro. 200 only. 4to. £1, 1s. net.

[Very few remain.

The present series will be continued at irregular intervals.

EGERTON (GEORGE).

Keynotes: Short Stories. With Title-page by Aubrey Beardsley. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

FIELD (MICHAEL).

Sight and Song. (Poems on Pictures.) 400 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

FIELD (MICHAEL).

Stephania: A Trialogue in Three Acts. 250 copies. Pott 4to. 6s. net.

[Very few remain.

GALE (NORMAN).

Orchard Songs. Fcap. 8vo. With Title-page and Cover Design by J. Illingworth Kay. 5s. net.

Also a Special Edition limited in number on hand-made paper bound in English vellum. £1, 1s. net.

GARNETT (RICHARD).

A Volume of Poems. 350 copies. Crown 8vo. With Title-page designed by J. Illingworth Kay. 5s. net.

GOSSE (EDMUND).

The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Now first edited. Pott 8vo. 5s. net.

[Immediately.

GRAHAME (KENNETH).

Pagan Papers: A Volume of Essays. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

GREENE (G. A.).

Italian Lyrists of To-day. Translations in the original metres from about thirty-five living Italian poets, with bibliographical and biographical notes. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

HAKE (DR. T. GORDON).

A Selection from his Poems. Edited by Mrs. Meynell. With a Portrait after D. G. Rossetti. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[Immediately.

HALLAM (ARTHUR HENRY).

The Poems, together with his essay ‘On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson.’ Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Le Gallienne. 550 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

HAMILTON (COL. IAN).

The Ballad of Hadji and other Poems. Etched Frontispiece by Wm. Strang. 50 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. net.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

HAYES (ALFRED).

The Vale of Arden and Other Poems. With Title-page and Cover Design by Laurence Housman. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

HICKEY (EMILY H.).

Verse Tales, Lyrics and Translations. 300 copies. Imp. 16mo. 5s. net.

HORNE (HERBERT P.).

Diversi Colores: Poems. With ornaments by the Author. 250 copies. 16mo. 5s. net.

IMAGE (SELWYN).

Carols and Poems. With decorations by H. P. Horne. 250 copies. 16mo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

JAMES (W. P.).

Romantic Professions: A Volume of Essays, with Title-page by J. Illingworth Kay. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

[Immediately.

JOHNSON (EFFIE).

In the Fire and Other Fancies. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. 500 copies. Imp. 16mo. 3s. 6d. net.

JOHNSON (LIONEL).

The Art of Thomas Hardy: Six Essays. With Etched Portrait by Wm. Strang, and Bibliography by John Lane. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net.

Also 150 copies, large paper, with proofs of the portrait. £1, 1s. net.

[Very shortly.

JOHNSON (LIONEL).

A Volume of Poems. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

KEATS (JOHN).

Three Essays, now issued in book form for the first time. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. With Life-mask by Haydon. Fcap. 4to. 10s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

LEATHER (R. K.).

Verses. 250 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. net.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

LEATHER (R. K.), & RICHARD LE GALLIENNE.

The Student and the Body-Snatcher and Other Trifles.

[Small paper edition out of print.

There remain a very few of the 50 large paper copies. 7s. 6d. net.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

Prose Fancies. With a Portrait of the Author. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

Also a limited large paper edition. 12s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

The Book Bills of Narcissus. An Account rendered by Richard le Gallienne. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, buckram. 3s. 6d. net.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

English Poems. Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

George Meredith: Some Characteristics. With a Bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane, portrait, etc. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net.

LE GALLIENNE (RICHARD).

The Religion of a Literary Man. Cr. 8vo. 3rd thousand. 3s. 6d. net.

Also a special rubricated edition on hand-made paper. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

LETTERS TO LIVING ARTISTS.

500 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

MARSTON (PHILIP BOURKE).

A Last Harvest: Lyrics and Sonnets from the Book of Love. Edited by Louise Chandler Moulton. 500 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

Also 50 copies on large paper, hand-made. 10s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

MARTIN (W. WILSEY).

Quatrains, Life’s Mystery and other Poems. 16mo. 2s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

MARZIALS (THEO.).

The Gallery of Pigeons and Other Poems. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

MEYNELL (MRS.), (ALICE C. THOMPSON).

Poems. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. A few of the 50 large paper copies (First Edition) remain, 12s. 6d. net.

MEYNELL (MRS.).

The Rhythm of Life, and other Essays. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 3s. 6d. net. A few of the 50 large paper copies (First Edition) remain. 12s. 6d. net.

MURRAY (ALMA).

Portrait as Beatrice Cenci. With critical notice containing four letters from Robert Browning. 8vo, wrapper. 2s. net.

NETTLESHIP (J. T.).

Robert Browning: Essays and Thoughts. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net. Half a dozen of the Whatman large paper copies (First Edition) remain. £1, 1s. net.

NOBLE (JAS. ASHCROFT).

The Sonnet in England and Other Essays. Title-page and Cover Design by Austin Young. 600 copies. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

Also 50 copies large paper. 12s. 6d. net.

NOEL (HON. RODEN).

Poor People’s Christmas. 250 copies. 16mo. 1s. net.

[Very few remain.

OXFORD CHARACTERS.

A series of lithographed portraits by Will Rothenstein, with text by F. York Powell and others. To be issued monthly in term. Each number will contain two portraits. Part I. contains portraits of Sir Henry Acland and Mr. W. A. L. Fletcher, and Part II. of Mr. Robinson K. Ellis, and Lord St. Cyres. 200 copies only, folio, wrapper, 5s. net per part; 25 special copies containing proof impressions of the portraits signed by the artist, 10s. 6d. net per part.

PINKERTON (PERCY).

Galeazzo: A Venetian Episode and other Poems. Etched Frontispiece. 16mo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

RADFORD (DOLLIE).

Songs. A New Volume of Verse.

[In preparation.

RADFORD (ERNEST).

Chambers Twain. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. 250 copies. Imp. 16mo. 5s. net.

Also 50 copies large paper. 10s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

RHYMERS’ CLUB, THE BOOK OF THE.

A second series is in preparation.

SCHAFF (DR. P.).

Literature and Poetry: Papers on Dante, etc. Portrait and Plates, 100 copies only. 8vo. 10s. net.

SCOTT (WM. BELL).

A Poet’s Harvest Home: with an Aftermath. 300 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

⁂ Will not be reprinted.

SHAW (A. D. L.).

The Happy Wanderer. Poems. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

STODDARD (R. H.).

The Lion’s Cub; with other Verse. Portrait. 100 copies only, bound in an illuminated Persian design. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[Very few remain.

SYMONDS (JOHN ADDINGTON).

In the Key of Blue, and other Prose Essays. Cover designed by C. S. Ricketts. Second Edition. Thick Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

THOMPSON (FRANCIS).

A Volume of Poems. With Frontispiece, Title-page and Cover Design by Laurence Housman. Second Edition. Pott 4to. 5s. net.

TODHUNTER (JOHN).

A Sicilian Idyll. Frontispiece by Walter Crane. 250 copies. Imp. 16mo. 5s. net.

Also 50 copies large paper, fcap. 4to. 10s. 6d. net.

[Very few remain.

TOMSON (GRAHAM R.).

After Sunset. A Volume of Poems. With Title-page and Cover Design by R. Anning Bell. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

Also a limited large paper edition. 12s. 6d. net.

[In preparation.

TREE (H. BEERBOHM).

The Imaginative Faculty: A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution. With portrait of Mr. Tree from an unpublished drawing by the Marchioness of Granby. Fcap. 8vo, boards. 2s. 6d. net.

TYNAN HINKSON (KATHARINE).

Cuckoo Songs. With Title-page and Cover Design by Laurence Housman. 500 copies. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.

[In preparation.

VAN DYKE (HENRY).

The Poetry of Tennyson. Third Edition, enlarged. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net.

The late Laureate himself gave valuable aid in correcting various details.

WATSON (WILLIAM).

The Eloping Angels: A Caprice. Second Edition. Square 16mo, buckram. 3s. 6d. net.

WATSON (WILLIAM).

Excursions in Criticism: being some Prose Recreations of a Rhymer. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo. 5s. net.

WATSON (WILLIAM).

The Prince’s Quest, and other Poems. With a Bibliographical Note added. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

WEDMORE (FREDERICK).

Pastorals of France—Renunciations. A volume of Stories. Title-page by John Fulleylove, R.I. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

A few of the large paper copies of Renunciations (First Edition) remain. 10s. 6d. net.

WICKSTEED (P. H.).

Dante. Six Sermons. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 2s. net.

WILDE (OSCAR).

The Sphinx. A poem decorated throughout in line and colour, and bound in a design by Charles Ricketts. 250 copies. £2, 2s. net. 25 copies large paper. £5, 5s. net.

[Very shortly.

WILDE (OSCAR).

The incomparable and ingenious history of Mr. W. H., being the true secret of Shakespear’s sonnets now for the first time here fully set forth, with initial letters and cover design by Charles Ricketts. 500 copies, 10s. 6d. net.

Also 50 copies large paper. 21s. net.

[In preparation.

WILDE (OSCAR).

Dramatic Works, now printed for the first time with a specially designed Title-page and binding to each volume, by Charles Shannon. 500 copies. Small 4to. 7s. 6d. net per vol.

Also 50 copies large paper. 15s. net per vol.

Vol. I. Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Comedy in Four Acts.

[Ready.

Vol. II. A Woman of No Importance: A Comedy in Four Acts.

[Shortly.

Vol. III. The Duchess of Padua: A Blank Verse Tragedy in Five Acts.

[In preparation.

WILDE (OSCAR).

Salomé: A Tragedy in one Act, done into English. With 11 Illustrations, title-page, and Cover Design by Aubrey Beardsley. 500 copies. Small 4to. 15s. net.

Also 100 copies, large paper. 30s. net.

[Shortly.

WYNNE (FRANCES).

Whisper. A Volume of Verse. With a Memoir by Katharine Tynan and a Portrait added. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

Transferred by the Author to the present Publishers.

The Hobby Horse

A new series of this illustrated magazine will be published quarterly by subscription, under the Editorship of Herbert P. Horne. Subscription £1 per annum, post free, for the four numbers. Quarto, printed on hand-made paper, and issued in a limited edition to subscribers only. The Magazine will contain articles upon Literature, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts; Poems; Essays; Fiction; original Designs; with reproductions of pictures and drawings by the old masters and contemporary artists. There will be a new title-page and ornaments designed by the Editor. Among the contributors to the Hobby Horse are:

The late Matthew Arnold.

Laurence Binyon.

Wilfrid Blunt.

Ford Madox Brown.

The late Arthur Burgess.

E. Burne-Jones, A.R.A.

Austin Dobson.

Richard Garnett, LL.D.

A. J. Hipkins, F.S.A.

Selwyn Image.

Lionel Johnson.

Richard Le Gallienne.

Sir F. Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.

T. Hope McLachlan.

May Morris.

C. Hubert H. Parry, Mus. Doc.

A. W. Pollard.

F. York Powell.

Christina G. Rossetti.

W. M. Rossetti.

John Ruskin, D.C.L., LL.D.

Frederick Sandys.

The late W. Bell Scott.

Frederick J. Shields.

J. H. Shorthouse.

The late James Smetham.

Simeon Solomon.

A. Somervell.

The late J. Addington Symonds.

Katharine Tynan.

G. F. Watts, R.A.

Frederick Wedmore.

Oscar Wilde.

Prospectuses on Application.

THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, LONDON, W.

‘Nearly every book put out by Messrs. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, is a satisfaction to the special senses of the modern bookman for bindings, shapes, types, and papers. They have surpassed themselves, and registered a real achievement in English bookmaking by the volume of “Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical,” of Lord De Tabley.’—Newcastle Daily Chronicle.

‘A ray of hopefulness is stealing again into English poetry after the twilight greys of Clough and Arnold and Tennyson. Even unbelief wears braver colours. Despite the jeremiads, which are the dirges of the elder gods, England is still a nest of singing-birds (teste the Catalogue of Elkin Mathews and John Lane).’—Mr. Zangwill in Pall Mall Magazine.

‘All Messrs. Mathews & Lane’s Books are so beautifully printed and so tastefully issued, that it rejoices the heart of a book-lover to handle them; but they have shown their sound judgment not less markedly in the literary quality of their publications. The choiceness of form is not inappropriate to the matter, which is always of something more than ephemeral worth. This was a distinction on which the better publishers at one time prided themselves; they never lent their names to trash; but some names associated with worthy traditions have proved more than once a delusion and a snare. The record of Messrs. Elkin Mathews & John Lane is perfect in this respect, and their imprint is a guarantee of the worth of what they publish.’—Birmingham Daily Post, Nov. 6, 1893.

‘One can nearly always be certain when one sees on the title-page of any given book the name of Messrs Elkin Mathews & John Lane as being the publishers thereof that there will be something worth reading to be found between the boards.’—World.

Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable

Printers to Her Majesty

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Fixed typos; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.