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...fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody enough for the best of us. The Author. A. D. Howden Smith, a special correspondent of the New York Evening. Post till 1921, has writ ten a number of other adventure stories LOSE...
...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...
...works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among them some Latin poems and a translation in verse from Propertius. This latter was written...
...From the Howden collection of autographs Mr. Gosse obtained several unprinted pieces. After reading these, Mr. Gosse spoke briefly upon the age in which Gray lived, and the place he occupied in it. Gray was isolated in his age, and went back for his teachers to Dryden and Cowley. He formed his style on these, and, in a less degree, on Milton and the Greek poets...