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...uniform edition of Matthew Arnold's work, in twelve volumes, has just been brought out by. The Macmillan Company. The six volumes of essays include the famous "Essays in Criticism," "Culture and Anarchy," etc., there are three volumes of poetry, and the remaining volumes are "Discourses in America," "Literture and Dogma," and "God and the Bible." The volumes can all be bought separately...
...DIED TWICE?Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan ($125). The narrative of Fernando Nash, a musician, is in blank verse. He died in the spirit and, having tasted the uttermost of disillusion and defeat, is 'born again?before he dies in the flesh?to such a vision of glory as "not more than once or twice, and hardly that, in a same century" will be given to another. An average between the best and the worst that Mr. Robinson can do, it is neither masterpiece nor failure. As such, it is filled with cramped or involuted obscurities. But as such...
...CURE OF SOULS?May Sinclair?Macmillan ($2.50). The Reverend Canon Clement Purcell Chamberlain cared really for nothing but the easy comfort of his body and the comfortable ease of his soul. He shrank before the physical vigorousness of Cartwright, his junior curate, who was always suggesting something to do, such as founding a Men's Club or starting a Sunday afternoon service for men alone. He shrank from Jackman also, who came to him with the tortures of his soul. Finally he found a way out. He rid himself of an unpleasant sister by inviting her down when Queningford...
...CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY- Ward and Gooch-Macmillan. Three volumes (Vol I-$6.00. Vols...
CHEAT-THE-BOYS?Eden Phillpotts? Macmillan ($2.25). There were two women in Warner Lidgate's life : Betsy Neck, whom he should have loved; Gilyan Neck, whom he did. "Cheat-the-Boys" is the endearing nickname of Gilyan, who tosses the hearts of the youth of Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...