The Book of Lies

sublimity of his conceptions. The range of his subjectsis almost infinite, and the majority of his poems are literally ablaze with the white heat of ecstasy, the passionate desire of the overman to- wards his ultimate consummation—re-union with God.”—Occuli Review. The High History of Good Sir Palamedes, the Saracen Knight, and of his fol- lowing of the Questing Beast. 55. net. An account of the Mystic Quest. “¢. , . Noble and beautiful poem.”—Occult Re- VIEW. *‘Ttis impossible to read ... without being impressed by the essential truth and beauty of the author’s spirit . .. written not as tasks are written, but from the fulness of the heart, passionately. In ‘ Sir Palamedes’ we have the history of a holy quest so treated that the theme becomes reconciled to ‘*The High History of Good Sir Palamedesis something between ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ and ‘Don Quixote’ without the particular individ- ual qualities of either; but, seriously speaking, it is a religious poem, and a great work of art. Again, superficially speaking, it is the master-limerick of a buffoon; again, seriously speaking, it is the epic of the eternal speaker .. . should on no account be missed. Itis a work that superficial criticism might as easily compare to some of the productions of Byron, as overlook with a sneer. I doubt,in fact whether the question of its placein literatureis one to be decided by contemporary criticism at all, I, at any rate, will not commit myself to attempting a decision.” —Poetry Review. 128