Part 2

James Whitcomb Riley said of Joaquin Miller’s singing: “It is the truest American voice that has yet thrilled the echoes of our wild, free land, and awakened the admiration and acclaim of the Old World. No marvel that our Country is proud of this proud child of hers, who in all lands has sung her dawning glory and his own changeless loyalty to her.”

_Songs of the Soul_

This volume contains this well known poet’s latest, and as pronounced by all critics, best poetic productions. The longest poem, entitled “Sappho and Phaon,” occupies seventy-three pages of the book, and is destined to become a classic. Besides this there are several of his older and most popular poems, such as “Columbus,” “Passing of Tennyson,” “Sunset and Dawn at San Diego,” etc., making a 12 mo. volume of 163 pages, with author’s latest portrait.

PRICE. Bound in Fine Silk Cloth, design on cover, Library Edition $1 00 Author’s Autograph Gift Edition, bound in full padded Leather 3 50 Paper Edition, printed in Gilt 25

“If Joaquin Miller had written nothing else, this one poem (Sappho and Phaon) would make a place for him among immortals.”--_The Wave._

The _Critic_, in a recent article, places him among the world’s greatest poets.

The _London Athenæum_ gives “Columbus” first place among all the poems written by Americans as to power, workmanship and feeling.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.

Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.

The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber for the convenience of the reader and is granted to the public domain.