sense of them should be easily gathered even by the south-country
reader.


_Some Press Opinions_

_The Poetry Review._--‘A new book by Mr. Wilfrid Gibson must always
arouse interest, for his genius has been displayed in such varied
forms that one can only wonder what new development, what new
blending of his great qualities may appear.... In “Krindlesyke” he
may be said to have astounded us all by achieving the seemingly
impossible combination of the diverse qualities he has hitherto
displayed separately.... Ezra Barrasford and his sons appear, amidst
the wreck they have made, wonderfully convincing characters.... The
women are no less convincing--good-hearted, toil-worn Eliza, driven
to “nagging” by her husband and sons; Bell Haggard, a truly
wonderful study; Judith, who has learned much wisdom from bitter
experience. As to the language, it is wonderfully true to country
life and character.’

_The Daily News._--‘There is much breadth of vision and much of that
bitter wisdom that is yet half beauty in this poem.’

_Mr. Laurence Binyon in The Observer._--‘“Krindlesyke” is at once
the most ambitious and the strongest work that Mr. Wilfrid Gibson
has given us. It is a dramatic poem, firmly designed, and carried
out with abundant energy and power.’

_The Times Literary Supplement._--‘The poet of deep and
self-forgetful feeling must, we venture to think, survive when