most notably those in the section, "Bronze Tablets". The Napoleonic Era
is an epic subject, and waits a great epic poet. I have only been able
to open a few windows upon it here and there. But the scene from the windows
is authentic, and the watcher has used eyes, and ears, and heart, in watching.

Amy Lowell
July 10, 1916.






Contents



Figurines in Old Saxe

Patterns
Pickthorn Manor
The Cremona Violin
The Cross-Roads
A Roxbury Garden
1777


Bronze Tablets

The Fruit Shop