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25. SOME PRESS OPINIONS. "The new 'Rejected Addresses' of Mr. Owen
Seaman are quite worthy to be ranked with the classic volumes of Horace
and James.... The thing is done as well as it could be.... This little
volume is _merum sal_."--_The Spectator_. "Mr. Kipling has never been so
nimbly caught before, for Mr. Seaman has the art to reproduce his
flute-notes as well as his big drum.... Several of the miscellaneous
pieces are among the very best humourous poetry of this generation. We
have laughed at nothing lately more than at 'Ars Postera,' at 'A New
Blue Book,' at 'To a Boy-Poet of the Decadence,' and at 'To Julia in
Shooting Togs.' But, after all, Mr. Seaman's masterpiece up to date is
certainly 'To the Lord of Potsdam.' ... This will live, or we are
greatly mistaken, among the most effective examples of historical
satire-lyric."--_The Saturday Review_. "It is certainly remarkable, in
our dearth of great poetry, how good of its sort the satiric verse of
our day is--so good, in fact, that nothing but the best will serve, and
even the best, like Mr. Seaman's, which in the day when Sir George Tr
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