16mo. vi, 81pp. Guiney has handwritten "The Recruit," the last poem in the volume, to a sheet attached to the front flyleaf. An added note by collector Frederick W. Skiff, below his bookplate, explains that Guiney had sent him the sheet for that explicit purpose. Guiney's titular work, a play in verse, grafts the pastoral settings of the Roman Mediterranean to the branching ideals of High Church theology and Platonism. These themes, among others, recur in Guiney's shorter poems, which here appear finely reprinted after initial publication in Harper's, The Century, The Chap-Book, and The Century, making this a rather early exemplar in what would become the common modernist approach to publishing: a first run of a work in a periodical, then its realization in a small press book, and eventually a later, more recognizably commercial venture. Guiney was a lodestar in the constellation of intellectuals populating Boston in the late 19th century, and was among the early entrants into what would later be recognized as "Catholic modernism." In a binding by Sarah Wyman Whitman of gray paper over boards with cover design of a rosy cross in gilt. Light rubs to corners, motes of soiling, else very good with a bright interior. Bookplates of Skiff and Estelle Doheny. T.e.g.