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POETRY 
" An elegant birthday or New Year’s gift.” 
Love Letters. By a Violinist. Consisting; 
A COLLECTION of poems setting forth the eulogies of love. 
music, and fidelity. The collection is divided into twelve 
parts, each being a lyric or letter addressed to a beautiful and 
accomplished lady The arrangement of the lines constitutes 
what may be considered a new metre. 
“ As the brightest of poets have passed away! ' ~ 
Now It s left between Tennyson and James Gay.” 
T m. Saturday Review has treated “Canada’s Poet” as the 
thinnest joke of the generation. But the fact is this 
amusing book is not ajoke at all. The whole point of its pub 
lica ion IS, that like “ English as She is Spoke,” it is a serious 
book, seriously written, and its author, James Gay, is serious in 
believing himself to be on a level with Lord Tennyson, to whom 
lywill be obsen'ed his “ poems ” are affectionately dedicated. 
My Ladye and Others: Poems:’ Satirical, 
enhall Press, E.C. [Ten-and-Sixpence. 
SERIES of charmingly written society verses. 
LOt^QfDOtK, S.C. 
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