IN PREPARATION: A NEW VOLUME BY A POPULAR AUTHOR. AT THE GATE OF DREAMS. POEMS, BY JAMES B. KENYON. (Author of "In Realms of Gold," "Songs in All Seasons," "Out of the Shadows.") Press and Personal Notices. From Henry W. Longfellow. I have not yet had time to read the volume through, but I have read enough in it, opening the pages here and there, to see the beautiful spirit in which it is written. * * * "An Idyl of Life" and "Carmen Noctis strike me as particularly charming poems. I doubt not that I shall find many more of equal merit. From John G. Whittier, I have read it with pleasure. It is a tender and beautiful story of the progress of Love to its blissful fruition, and the thanksgiving song of “Epinicion." From Edmund C. Stedman. There is a great deal of feeling in your book, and this is a scarce element in much of the verse of to-day. I think no poet's song of much worth, or likely to be lasting, unless it expresses genuine and natural emotion of some kind. Your book has this in its favor; and I see that you have made a careful study of your art also, and especially of the sonnet form. Among the sonnets I have been struck by "If it Were" (page 30) and "Death and Night," (46), both of which seem to me subtle and beautiful. There is plenty of room for more than one new poet; and, if you keep singing, some one will in the end hear and know the song. * * ** * * From George William Curtis. * I have only now received and read your little book, I have done so with great interest and * * I am sure that you find the sympathy. Muse a sufficient friend and consoler, and that you do not need the good wishes which it is yet very pleasant for me to offer. * * * From R. H. Stoddard. You write carefully, with an earnest desire to conform to the forms chosen by you, and do so successfully. For example, you know what so many do not, what makes a sonnet, and you write good sonnets. If you had only lived when Drayton, Daniel, Drummond, and the rest of the early sonneteers were writing, I see no reason why you should not have taken your place in their old-fashioned ranks. I like the care which you bestow upon your work, in which I find a clearness of perception and a delicate sense of melody. From Oliver Wendell Holmes. I recognize the artistic skill of your verses, and if they do not contain the history of a true passion, they certainly have all the air of reality. From John Burroughs. Since Mr. Gilder's "New Day" I have seen no new book of poems that contains so much poetic feeling and sweetness as your little volume. From Benjamin F. Taylor. I must tell you that your poems, in spirit and in execution, delight me. I look for laurel-crowned achievements right early from the same source. From the New York Critic. A warm golden atmosphere surrounds these poems. There is to be found in them little of the subtle suggestiveness which allies poetry to the art of the musician; this poet is a word-painter, and to turn the leaves of his book is like passing through a gallery, filled with figures and groups, rich in color and beautiful in form, with the flash of ivory flesh and the soft gloom of purple robes. 66 From the New York Tribune. We recognize in James B. Kenyon's little volume, In Realms of Gold," a decided gift. His classical fancies are often delightful. He has a delicate descriptive talent, a sure and fastidious taste, and a command of felicitous expression which is not an offset to a languid creative power. The standard of his verse is distinctly high, and the play of his imagination full of grace and charm. From the Boston Transcript. It is a great delight to come across a new author like this, whose diction shows him to be indubitably of the blood royal, and with whom a critic can afford to rejoice. From the Boston Daily Advertiser. His gift may not be great or wonderful; but it is singularly fine, clear and pure. He is no apostle of a school-either philosophic or fleshly; he uses the simple themes of nature, love and human life, and seeks to probe no darker mysteries. For this very reason his writing has the quality-rare enough in these days-of spontaneity; he has a song to sing, and he sings it. From the Chicago Dial. Mr. Kenyon's verse is highly finished and exquisitely melodious; its blending of nature-worship plished with a degree of taste and feeling, rare even with classical and historical suggestion, is accomwith more practiced singers. From the Utica Morning Herald. He is in reality the American Keats, reveling in the fancies of mythology, dwelling in thought among the ancients, and yet a keen observer of the scenes of nature among which he lives. From the Churchman. There is a music in Mr. Kenyon's verse which half a century ago would have made the fortune of any poet. 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