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...John Farrar, his college classmate, editor of the Bookman, has written as follows...
...Bookman: "Byrne's prose has the languorous beat of a Keats sonnet...
From "Mass Education" by John Erskine in September "Bookman...
Said John Farrar, Bookman editor: "The man who created the famous Brownies was one of the gentlest and quaintest people I have ever met. His whole life seemed to be tied up in the absurd and entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he would present you with a card on which he had painted a Brownie in glowing colors, and had printed a verse supposed to be peculiarly fitted to your own temperament. I think that Mr. Cox came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there...
...MIDDLE TWENTIES?John Farrar ?Doran ($1.50). Into this slim, trim volume, the editor of The Bookman has packed poems of infinitely varied moods. There are elfinly humorous love lyrics, the brooding sombreness of a group called Portraits, War Women, and even one appalling trifle which concerns itself with a cocktail made by alcoholizing the bodies from Egyptian tombs...