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Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

"One Hundred Best Books"


The _Nation_ says:--"It is more weighty than many of the more
pretentious treatises on the subject."


THE SOLILOQUY OF A HERMIT
By THEODORE FRANCIS POWYS
_12mo, 144 pages, $1.00_
A profoundly original interpretation of life by the great lecturer's
hermit brother of which the Dial, Chicago says: "Truly a satirist and
humorist of a different kidney from the ordinary sort is this
companionable hermit. There is many a chuckle in his little book."


G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK


BOOKS BY I.B. STOUGHTON HOLBORN
CHILDREN OF FANCY
_Second Edition, 256 pages, $2.00 net_
This volume has a special claim to attention as the poet was invited
to read these poems at Oxford University at the 1915 Summer Meeting.
The Oxford Chronicle in a long account "of one of the greatest
pleasures provided for the Meeting," remarked that "the ideal is
perfectly attained when the poet can recite his own poems with the
artistry with which Mr. Holborn introduced to his audience his
charming 'Children of Fancy.'"
Mr. Holborn swam with part of the MSS.


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