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...costs of education, like the old gray mare, "ain't" what they used to be. The price of learning has reached for the ceiling along with the price of good liquor. Education nowadays is "a great industry." The Board of Education of New York City sat itself down quite casually the other day and adopted the largest building program in the history of Gotham's school system, providing for the construction of ninety buildings and the improvement of school playgrounds at a total cost of about $68,000,000. Just like that--nonchalant like! Also, the other day, the Registrar...
...EDGE-Walter de la Mare-Knopf...
Even in his poetry Walter de la Mare traffics in the spooky, but in spooks of a gossamer, indefinite kind. He understands that an effective ghost is never concrete. On the Edge contains many a tale that will give you the creeps, some that will merely set you musing. Some of them...
...Mare never speaks out, never clothes his spooks in a simple declarative manner. They might be merely states of mind, queer tricks of sensation, strange coincidences. There is nothing solid in this dank mistiness that you can lay your finger on, but you feel it. Sometimes it chills you to the bone...
...Author. Walter de la Mare, 58, English minor poet, anthologist, editor and bedtime-verse-writer (he is most widely known for his children's verse & tales), has written many a prose book which critics rank as high as any of his verse. An enthusiastic fictioneer, he sometimes lectures on the art. Married, he has four children, lives in London. Other books: Songs of Childhood, Poems, The Listeners and Other Poems, The Return, Peacock Pie, The Veil and Other Poems, The Riddle and Other Stories...