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"Give place, fair ladies, and begone, / Ere pride hath had a fall! / For here at hand approacheth one / Whose grace doth stain you all. / "Ettarre is well compared / Unto the Phoenix kind, / Whose like was never seen or heard, / That any man can find. "
Much has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Froser's Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts of Kennaston's life. Yet most readers of the Biography, I think, must have felt that the great change in Kennaston no long while after he "came to forty year" -- this sudden, almost unparalleled, conversion of a talent for tolerable verse into the full-fledged genius of Men Who Loved Alison -- stays, after all, unexplained.