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PRESS NOTICES ON THE FIRST EDITION OF "SILHOUETTES." "Mr. Arthur Symons's 'Silhouettes' are graceful and musical poems, with the finish beseeming their briefness. They are choicely executed miniatures rather than silhouettes. For the especial quality which almost all possess - and some in a great degree - there i sno other description so appropriate as that vague word 'charm.' ... Mr. Symons may be frankly accepted as a genuine poet - major or minor is at present no matter for decision, for, at his stage, minor may become major before all is done." Athenaeum, March 4, 1893. PRESS NOTICES ON "LONDON NIGHTS." "Those who have learned from his former volumes know Mr. Symons as a careful maker of meolodious verse, not without a gift of direct vision, and often distinguished by some felicity of expression, will open, as we did, his new book of poems with considerable expectations. Nor will any studen of verse, simply as verse, be disappointed. Mr. Symons is no unskilled metricist. He has learned the secret of the melody of simple metres, and he uses his knowledge often with unquestionable success. He has learned, too, the value of simplicity of language, and in such verse as 'White Magic,' 'Memory,' and 'At the Ambassadeurs,' he hits the mark." - Saturday Review. "'London Nights,' by Arthur Symons, is a very dainty, very clever volume of verses, mainly descriptive of various female characters - fickle, fleeting, beautiful, intensely human, and of course, not usnsuspectable, and therefore tormentingly unsatisfactory." - Glasgow Herald. "'Nuits de Londres,' ainsi s'intule le nouveau livre du delicat et vivant poete. Mais n'allex pas en conclure a des tenebres de 'fog' et de 'mist,' a des scenes lugubres ou brutales. Imaginez ou, comme dit l'Anglais, 'realisez,' au contraire, toute le raffinement et tout l'eclat de la vie nocturne d'un fantaisiste elegant, epris du joli, do coquet - et du Beau, parmi les splendeurs d'un Londres intelligemment viveur, d'un Londres moderne a l'extreme et le plus parisien possible, avec la nuance anglaise, toutefois, distinction supreme, veux-je de dire, dans le style, joyeux parfois, leger, qui sait sourire et badiner sans jamais 's'emballer' jusqu'a meme un soupcon de gaite quelque peu grasse." Paul Verlaine in the Revue Encyclopedique. To Mr....189 Sir, Please forward me cop of "SILHOUETTES," by Mr. Arthur Symons, small paper edition at Five Shillings per copy net, or cop large paper edition at One Guinea per copy net, as published by Mr. Leonard Smithers, of 1, Arundel Srreet, Strand, London. Name... Address....