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Times (London)
3 December 1891

BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

> The answer to the question QUO, MUSA, TENDIS? which is the title of a new volume of poems by Mr. J.K. Stephen, the author of "Lapsus Calami" (Cambridge, Macmillan and Bowes), appears to be given in the last two stanzas of the final poem, addressed "Labenti Calamo":-

"I go to fly at higher game;
"At prose as good as I can make it.
"And though it brings nor gold nor fame,
"I will not, while I live, forsake it."

"Farewell! I've other work to do,
"Another way of reaching men.
"But I shall still remember you,
"You've served me well; adieu, dear Pen.

Yet before he bids farewell to the lyric muse, Mr. Stephen would fain win a place for himself among lyric bards more serious than he could hope to claim merely as the writer of "Lapsus Calami." He is not altogether unsuccessful in this ambition. His verse is musical and various, and his themes are touched with a happy knack of originality.


Related pages:
  J.K. Stephen
       Authors: An Interview with Deborah McDonald 
       Message Boards: James Kenneth Stephen 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 1 December 1875 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 12 March 1881 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 13 June 1887 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 15 January 1892 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 20 October 1891 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 24 April 1883 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 24 February 1881 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 25 February 1886 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 27 October 1891 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 3 February 1942 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 30 January 1882 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 30 November 1887 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 30 November 1891 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 31 May 1883 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 4 July 1896 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 5 February 1892 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 5 June 1877 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 5 May 1887 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 8 June 1881 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 9 February 1880 
       Ripper Media: Clarence: Was He Jack the Ripper? 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper Revealed 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - James Kenneth Stephen 
       Ripper Media: Jack: The Grim Ripper 
       Ripper Media: Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper 
       Ripper Media: The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper 
       Ripper Media: The Whitechapel Murders (Mylechreest, 1974) 
       Suspects: James Kenneth Stephen