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play has obviously established his
claim to be counted among that num-
ber"
If one be skeptical as to the justin
cation for this statement, a perusal of
'"rhe White Headed Boy" should be
sufficient to remove his doubts. The
play is all that Mr.. Boyd claims it to
be. 1t is a cleverly conceived and
skillfully constructed comedy of Irish
life, witty in its dialogue, humorous
in it's situations, natural in it's COM
plications, faithful in its character de-
lineations. Denis Geoghegan, the
white headed boy" Is the central
character, his mothers favorite and
the trial of the rest of the family. He
has been studying medicine at the ex-
pense of his brothers and sisters; but
the most that he has accomplished is
to lose money on the horse races and
to fail in three successive examina-
tions. Following the third failure
Denis is informed that he has had his
last chance; that he must now be
shipped away to Canada to make his
own way, and that, incidentally, he
must give up Della Duffy, the girl he
is engaged to marry. Quite naturally
this does not appeal to Denis, and he
sulSs in his room while the news Is
spread that he is going to Canada to
accept some extraordinary position.
Meanwhile the Geoghegans are in-
volved i'm difficulties with the elder
Duffy, who demands compensation for
'he "jilting" of his daughter and clan
destinely extorts money from several
members of the family. To escape his
demands they order Depis to marry
Della, but Denis refuses. protesting
that he will not ask her to share In
the hardships of his exile. But when
later they approve his decision not to
marry they find that he is married
already. And then-horror of hor-
rors! he commences work as O COM
mon laborer and in his native town.
His family can stand anything sooner
than this. and, though they have
sworn to send him away, they now
make him many tempting offers, which
he obligingly accepts, and so, after all
their resolves to be rid of him, he ends
by being as much of a burden on them
as at the beginning.
Any synopsis. unfortunately, can
give only a faint idea of the ingenu-
BUSINESS and the humorous situations
of the play. To be appreciated 1t must
be read or seen on the stage. It's
closer acquaintance is recommended
for all who care for what is best In
the contemporary drama
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.
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either for one act or three act success
and that Miss Glaspell in attempting
the longer form Is forsaking her birth
right
More effect is produced by a limited
series OF effective emphatic scenes
than by prolonged exposition. This
axiom does not deter Miss Glaspell
from writing into "Tnheritors' dia-
logue and philosophy that would be of
great interest In a novel and that
as a matter of fact. lends itself readily
to the reading value of the play, but
detracts from the dramatic value.
IL is an open question, of course
whether dramatic value is necessary
to a play as published in book form
whether it is necessary to reduce to
terms of conciseness speeches not
meant to be spoken but to be read. II
seems to us, however, that if the au-
thor insists upon disregarding or
weakening the dramatic possibilities
of her material, she should seek the
medium of short story or of
novel and not of play
Some exception may be made in favor
of blank verse drama, but even so II
should be made possible for the reader
to visualize the action If he so chooses.
'1nheritors" is subject to another limi-
tation--in being extremely topical. Al
ready we are forgetting the hue and
cry after free speech. raised year
ago. which will be doubtless now silent
until after our next war. It might be
well to read "Inheritors" therefore, say
semi-annuaIly--if only TO remind our
selves that there are certain intoIer-
ances duiescent In America.
In brief. "fnheritors" tells the story
of middle Western, college. founded
to give the next generation better
world to live in" and how the grand
daughter of the founder discovered,
thirty years later, that the world was
no better, because of the sitting of the
very ideals to which the college was
dedicated II is the old conflict Of
idealism and materialism that Is set
forth in 1nheritors," with the ma
terial supremacy Of common sense"
at the end. If this be treason. make
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ciate much of its beauty without losx
ing the effect Of the conflict.
Whether or not Swords" Is las re-
markable play as America has ever
produced"-to quote the jacket-at
least it seems as readable a play as
has ever been produced on the Ameri-
can stage. The Jest" to be sure.
may be more startling in its colloqufal
medievalism. But as "The Jest" Is
twin to Collini's memoirs, Swords"
is twin, to Dante's Inferno. Without
losing for n moment the Guelph
Gibelline background. Swords"
swings into pure ethereal poetry. TO
which even the best lines OF Sheldon's
translation of THE Jest" could not
aspire because of the limitations of
Benefits original. Mr.. Howard has
been hampered not at all in such wise.
He is not a translator, but poet. 1t
may be that IL he were tranSlating the
work OF another writer he would
never have attained the heights which
his genius reaches. Or il may be that
were he dramatizing a modern theme,
he could not set forth so dramatic a
sequence of scenes. His later work
must be awaited before venturing up
on any verdict of his power. Mean
while Swords" is unusual reading
and of great promise.
We very much wish that more pub
fishers would follow the example of
Mr.. Knopf and few others in giving
brief biography of the author either
on the book Jacket or in PREDATORY
note. We should be omniscient con-
cerning our contemporaries-bu we
are not. We should also have re-
membered the biographical data con-
cerning Mr.. Howard given to the
press at the time Swords" was pro-
duced in New York. Our omniscience
falters, our memory Is dim. So we
are certain only that Swords" is the
first play of Mr.. Howard's TO be pro-
duced and have TO conjecture that its
appearance between covers Is his first
book. If we are mistaken we should
rewrite the preceding paragraph. AS
II is. we shall take n chance. In our
hope for '1ater work"
CORNELIA p. LATHROP.
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Outline of English
Plays Development

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENG
LISH DRAMA BY Benjamin. .Bfawley.
Harcourt Brace & Co.
sages William e. 3. Du Bois
says that Shakespeare and Faato
draw no color line. Mr.. Braw1eyr has
written the first short history of. the
English drama, and has done it, su-
premely well He has shown; wide
reading, good perspective and inruch
discrimination. 1t will be some time
before his work is superseded. 1t
neither detracts nor adds to the merit
Of the book that Mr.. Brawley Is a
negro, whose first literary efforts twere
in the study of his own people Tie
would not want to exploit his race sto
gain ag hearing. He wishes to alive
his scholarship to the whole wortd
and not to any section of humanity.
There Is one defect in the book :.
however. for which the limitations 81
imposed on men of color are in pa1rl
responsible 1t over emphasizes tlHs
readers view Of drama. Not enoughf
is said about actors and acting. Very.
slight attention is given to the modern
art of stage setting. Drama is con-
ceived as something too purely liter
airy. There are many portions Of the
country where the authors color would
either automatically exclude him from
the theatre or cause him to be as
signed to an inferior seat. Mr.. Brawley
is too brave a soul to be daunted
by this handicap, but It reminds us
that just as prejudice Is depriving the
world Of Mr.. Gilpin's talent 81 all
cultivated persons are the losers by
our prejudices.
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Amateurs Are Best
Actors in Pageants
THE TECHNIQUE OF THE PAGEANT.
BY Linwood Tuft. A. s. Barnes & Co.

THE TECHNIQUE OF THE PAGEANT
BY Linwood Tuft. A. s. Barnes & Co.
TIME pageant has come into
its own again as part of the
movement which VachelI
Lindsay treats of In his dream Of the
village beautiful. More and more
communities are expressing their ira
ditions and ideals by pageantry. Lin
wood Tuft is qualified to write on this
topic. He has had much experience
in staging pageants. He knows ex-
actly what a pageant ought to be and
how the proper results can be OBJ
tained. He teaches by example. One
of the most important features OF the
book are two specimen programs, one
OF the Historical Festival and Pageant,
Savannah, Hundred Years Ago, and
the other of Patriotic Pageant He
lays much stress upon the lighting
and other pictorial effects. He shows
how the pageant differs, from the
drama.
He says, Pageant actors should be
Interested In that particular bit OF
acting because of It's significance to
the community. For this reason resi-
dent amateurs give much more sat
lsfactory and convincing pageant per-
formance than the most skilled of non-
resident actors. Pageantry is not a
suitable medium for the expression Of
the art of the trained actor. His
proper field is the real drama with its
possibilities for the portrayal Of devel-
opment of character. Development Of
character has very little part In the
construction OF pageants Each epi-
sode OF pageant can and should show
only one significant moment I'm the
life OF apy one individual or group OF
The acting of the pag-
cant is static rather than dynamic.
hence II can be effectively done by an
unframed person of the type demand
ed by the character of the particu-
lar episode In question"
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NEW BOOKS
Fiction

ElcNAOm
THE MAGNET-By Henry C. Rowland
Dodd-Mead.
THE HOUSE OF CARDs-By Hannah
Garland. Dodd-Mead.
THE ROMANTIC LADY-By Michael
, Arlen. Dodd- Mead.
CYTHEREA-By Joseph Hergesheimer
Knopf.
ENVY: A TAI.E-By Ernest Won VII
dcnbruch. Translated from the Ger
man by Ellie Traut. -Four Seas.
SCARHAvEN KEEP-By j. S. Fletch-
er. Knopf.
Poetry and Drama.
THE THEATRE OF TOMORROW
BY Kenneth Mac Gowan. Boni &
LNeright.
THE CRITIC AND THE DRAMA
BY George Jean Nathan. Knopf.
POEMS: 1851: Including Three Por-
traits and Four Cantos-By Ezra
Pound. Boni & Liveright.
LEGENDS OF LIFE AND OTHER
POEMS-By Bertha Oppenheim. Bos-
ton: Stratford.
For Boys and Girls.
LAVINIA: The Red Cross Dolby
Caroline Stetson Allen. Stratford
A MARINE, SIR BY Edward Champe
carter. COrnnll.
History.
PANAMA PAST AND PRESENT-By
A. Hyatt Verrill Dodd-Mead
Essays.
THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO BE
INTELLIGENT-By John Erskine
New edition. Duffield.
Social Science.
SOME PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCT
TION--By Annie M. Mclean. Nc
Clurg
Architecture.
SMALL HOUSES: THEIR ECONOMIC
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Essays on the Fundamental Principles
of Design and Descriptive Articles
on Construction--By Ernest FYage.
Illustrated by the Author Scribner's
miscellaneous.
WHARF MANAGEMENT-By Roy S.
MacElwee and Thomas r. Taylor. Ap-
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l I.RINCIPLES OF RAILROAD TRANS
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rand Thurman w. Van Metre Apple
ton.
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A Health Mask
in Dumb Show
Tft-CCoNFLICT BY Gertrude III. Colby.
/ A. S. Barnes K Co.

TTtCCONFLICT. BY Gertrude III. Colby.
A. Is. Barnes & Co
s,sT~HE Conflict" is Health
i Masaue in pantomime
In Mr<y, 1913, at Teachers College OF
Columbia University. The story which
carried dahe message of hygiene in dra-
matici form was based upon the col
laboratts&n of several people. 1t re-
mindssorAe Of the morality play of the
Middle Ages in the way that it carries
teaching, into a form which makes II
impressive to the whole community
There INA minimum Of the spoken
word
HumatA, A,y is represented as Pandora
of the OH fable. The three acts take
place in the Grove of Innocence, the
Dark Ghadks of Ignorance and at the
Court Of Wisdom. AS shown In the
photographs Ignorance is little too
attractive. Nike the evil forces In Nil
toms Masuuts OF Comus, but the moral
Is nevertheless made clear. This vol
ume Is maGei unusually useful by an
elaborate set sDf stage directions, which
specify the lsetting. the music. the
costumes and fthe dances. A bibliogra-
ply directs 1hke student to books on
t1a dauoaS
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Denis Geoghegan
a Family's Despair

THE wHfTE-HEADED BOY. BY Len
nox Robinson. @. Y. Putnam's Sons.
ct ENNox ROBINSON deserves
well OF all who have a care
- for the Irish theatre" says
Ernest Boyd in his Introduction to
this play. at the outset Of that brave
undertaking W. b. Yeats's aim was
20 secure an audience for the half
dozen minds who are likely 10 be the
dramatic Imagination Of ireland for
this generation. The author or this
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rN pucKEL,s BooKsHoP.

II sec by The Publishers Weekly"
said Mr.. Flick, TIE head clerk, "tha.
Miss Bessie Graham of Philadelphia
IS going TO give a series of twelve lee
lures on bookseliing under the aus
pices Of the New York Booksellers
League. What's the idea7"
"Offhand," said Mr.. Bucket. as he
wrote out an order for another million
copies of "If Winter Comes" "I'd say
that the idea is to promote better
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Good Literature in Two Plays

thu most of it, Al least, 1t has re-
Gently been proven true.
BY a singular twist of the generali-
zation concerning the reading value
of a play written above, we might
suggest that Swords demonstrates
tie ideal blank verse drama. capable
of stage presentation, yet even more
thrilling to be read. There is one
speech at least--that of Fiamma at
the close of the third act-which in
the play as produced was utterly over
whelmed by the tumult Of the fighting
on the stage. Read with the tumult
subdued to paragraph of stage di-
rection. II IS quite possible 10 appre-
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The Book Factory
By EDWARD ANTHONY.
RONDEAU.

She needed me to discipline
Her Grade mind. The mandolin,
Doug Fairbanks, Irv Berlin. '"The Shek'-
She raved of these week after week,
Till, weary of the bourgeois dn
I sent the erring feminine
The classics. To put muscle in
Her fragile cerebral physique
She needed me.
Then certain that my act would win
A song of praises saccharin,
called and she-(thes women pique y
Cried, $50 you think that I'm geek
And with her mothers rolling pin
She kneaded me!
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is lost. He will persist in writ
ing stage dialogue long after his sim
cerest friends have advised that he has
no talent for it because there is no
excitement equal to a stage produc-
ton. Clever Israel Zangwill, good ma
tured cynic as he is, has proved that
he was not immune.
For he once wrote a piece that had
a run" 1t was called "The Melting
Pot" and Zangwill's publishers mis-
takingly attribute to him the coming
Of this admirable title. They likewise
insinuate that the piece is near
classic of the theater.
About all that one can truthfully
say of this play is that, in spite of a
good deal that was trite both in situa-
tion and dialogue, and perhaps on ac-
count OF its triteness, IL proved to
be piece for the theater and nothing
more. II by no means fulfilled its title
and IL may not be called literature.
Zangwill himself In a rare moment Of
verify which very occasionally permits
us TO see ourselves in life as we are,
would admit these diminutions of his
stage glory, which are by no means
damning.
But what he learned about the art
Of writing for the stage he did not
draw on for the new play which he
presents for reading. Perhaps he feels.
although that is doubtful, that The
Cockpit" would not succeed on the
boards.
IL certainly wouldn't but that does
not mean the piece isn't very good
reading, for IL is. Better than this
faint praise is the quantity Of "'char-
acter' the author has put into his
three acts. And the scene--an inn
aginary kingdom, easily conceived as
one of the little new States of central
Europe---lacks nothing that it should
have OF picturesqueness. All the same
only the first act belongs in the cate
CORY of workable drama.
There we are shown an exile from
this foreign cockpit" living under an
assumed name In New York and bring
ing up the heir to the throne, whom
he had rescued from death i'm a revoIu-
lIOIs H& liS fitWkntfis oiit HdS Ut
tained maturity and loves young
architect, but when a delegation from
Europe arrives and summons her TO
the throne influences of heredity and
the call Of ambition persuade her to
throw in her lot with her people"
once In the cockpit plenty happens
and thrills abound, but never again
are foster father or lover heard of. and
only after she has been saved from
an ignoble political marriage by a
great victory won by sort OF choco-
late soldier does the PeOOU of the
first act and the Marguerite of the
other two breathe the tag which alone
Joins them: at is just as Daddy said.
a Cockpit"
Yes, Zangwill's new play must be
relegated to the closet. but AS 1t will
have many readers that isn't such a
bad fate.
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INHERITORS. BY Susan Glaspell
Small Maynard x Co.
SWORDS. BY Sidney Howard. George
H. Doran Company
T HERE is always such triteness
in good advice rendered to well
known authors by unknown
reviewers that we would hesita&e to
criticize "Ihheritors' were it not that
we had been strengthened (by attend
ing performance of "rhe Verge"
Miss Glaspelrs more recent play) in
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pooksellins. Wouldn't you. Mr.. Flick ?"
"Of course, I understand that said
Mr. Flick. "What want to know is-
what's the idea Of trying to improve
conditions by lectures? 7 didn't be-
come n good salesman"----
period" said Mr.. Bucket. looking
up from his order pad with n twinkle
in his eye.
What do you mean-period? asked
Mr.. Flick, slightly fustered.
You said I didn't become good
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VIII Rogers, cowboy philosopher,
author and movie actor, at the annual
dinner of the Authors League of
America. boasted as follows:
Anyhow. I've got this distinction
came out of the movies with the
same wife I went in with"
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Authors please note: WANTED
Books on Japan. China the Far East
and the South Seas
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AGGALOMANIA.


"All right" said George Martin the
genial editor of Farm aud FiresIde,
when we told him that as soon as our
farm and hennery near New Bruns-
wick made US a fortune we would give
him the exclusive rights to an article
to be called, with apologies to Sher-
wood Anderson, The Triumph of the
Egg"
We suspect, however, that Mary
Hatch (author OF THE Missing Man,
could conduct the hennery more sue
ccssfully than a comparative amateur
"a mere yollel as IT were-like us.
Speaking of Farm and Fireside, off
goes our bonnet to the same for pub
fishing, during 1921. some of the best
poems Robert Frost has written.
Businesslike souls must find il
pleasure to do business with the book
binders. Theirs are always binding
contracts.
On the IT, the other day a boy
opposite us was having so much fun
reading book called Joe, the circus
Boy. and Rosemary'--(We' couldn't
make out the authors name, but part
of tive don't know which parts
Allen)--that this paragraph is writ
ten TO tell the publishers thereof, who
ever they may be, that we'll give any
thing we own. except our copy of ii.
NJ. Tomlnson's London River" for
peep az the enthralling volume.
We understand that the publishers
are looking for a new selling slogan.
A good place to look would he Slogans
Alley.
The other day we braved the
o'clock subway rush with a copy of
conrad's Victory" .n the blue
leather" edition, uRder our arm. When
we arrived at our destination and
squirmed our way out of the bowling
/ mob VIC discovered that the binding
had been changed To-
Crushed levant.
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David Gray the aut bdr of "Gallops'
and THE Wax Cylinde u" has come To
Broadway with q new pay.
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Plots lof Operas

THE OPERA, AGOERS COMPbEIh
GUIDE. By fAso Melitz. Director OF
the stadt TheAter. at Basel Trans
lated by Ric Hard Salinger. Dodd
Mead 4 Co.
A. NEW edition of DIR. Melitz's
~ standard fopera guide is now
= published, ,srevised and brought
up to date by Louise Wallace Hack
ney after consul.a ton with the Ii
brarian of the metropolitan Opera
Company. 1t copsA41ns 26s opera plots
with musical numLSs-s and casts. Two
supplements have been added to this
edition In which haAye been added the
plots of a number Of 4opcras either new
or newly produced. v"Aphrodite" leads
the first of these "Skdtras" and Boris
Godunoff'' the se&.pnd. Not every
book Of reference foit.. musicians is so
well worth reissuing rin revised edi-
tions as this one. whi, n has long since
established it's reputs hson as a prac-
tical and comprehens Ave guide.
David Gray, the aut tdr of "Gallops"
and "The Wax Cylinde ~" has come to
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BOOKS ON DRAMA AND OTHER ARTS

salesman and forgot to drop your
voice, The period indicates the con.
clusion of the sentence
I'm afraid you misunderstood, Mr.
Bucket What / was going to say is
that / didn't become a good salesman
until had five years of experiencei'
"Oh, I see." said Mr.. Bucket who
loved to tease his head clerk. Then
you are good salesman now? I'm
glad you told me-
What makes you think otherwise,
Mr. Buckel?"
Nothing" said Mr.. Bucket, with a
chuckle. "only"--
"Only what?"
"Only I recall that several weeks
ago when a gentleman asked you to
suggest Thanksgiving gift book you
suggested 'Turkey.' by DIR. Talcott
Williams"
THAT wasn't my fault, Mr.. BuckeI,"
said Mr.. Flick, turning red. Some
darned fool left Il on the gift, book
counter. If you don't think I'm a good
salesman"-
Nov, now, MI. Flick you mustn't
take on SO. In ten more years you'll
bS do iliit q of1i-Silldu
Mr.. Flick didn't wait for the rest.
He turned on his heel and strobe
haughtily to the back of the store,
where he spent the rest of the after
noon in moody reflection on the un-
F., gratefulness of employers
Not the least fascinating feature of
Vera" the new novel by the mysteri-
Gus Elizabeth" is the use of the
phrase "barging in," which seems to
be the English equivalent for our
"butting in."
The nearest approach to the same
phrase In English literature appears
in Tennyson's famous description of
Elaine barging into heaven.
A telephone contribution from Dor
othy B. Is to the effect that with
Nancy of Paradise Cottage" by S.
Watkins; ''The Jubilee Girl by A. p.
Hankins. and "The Happy Venture"
by e. b. Price, among her holiday
presents II looks like a happy New
Year.
And now, since that Is what 1922 Is
going to be for her, we hope some one
will send Dorothy B. copy of Mar
garet Widdemer's 1.-THE Year of De-
light"
,In one OF our rambles through sec
ond hand bookshops we ran across a
battered collection of seventeenth CEN
tury verse that contained. among
other gems. the glorious line, kiss
me and be quiet" by Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu.)
Easy on the chatter, dear
Kiss me and be quiet
Though your voice is good TO hear.
Easy on the chatter, dear.
Give your smackquiescence! Mere
Phrases are no diet!
Easy on the chatter, dear
Kiss me and be quiet,
A school teacher of our acquaint-
ance tells us that one of the children
Bean Stork."
The child probably thought it was
one of the tales of Maxim Storky
Many are the complaints of the pub
fishing trade that 1921 was "A lean
year and il occurs to us that the rea-
son why business wasn't better is that
every one bought a copy of THE Out
line of History and didn't have time
to read anything else.
How fast can you read a book?-
THE SUN.
II all depends. Now, if it were one
of the Garter Girls" series by Nell
Speed
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Crushed levant.
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New Zangwill Play
Is for the Reader
THE COCKPIT. BY Israel Zangwill.
The Macmillan Company.

HE novelist who has once had
play performed in the theatre
is lost. He will persist in writ.
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They Also Paint
in HOOsier State

ART AND ARTISTS OF INDIANA. BY
Mary @ Burnet. The Century Com
pany.
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TRIOLET.

tIn one OF our rambles through Sec
,ond hand bookshops we ran across a
battered collection of seventeenth CEN
tury verse that contained, among
other gems. the glorious line, Kiss
me and be quiet" by Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu)
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Speaking Of Farm and Fireside, off
goes our bonnet to the same for pub
Fishing, during 1921. some of the best
poems Robert Frost has written.
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We understand that the publishers
are looking for a new selling slogan.
A good place to look would he Slogans
AIfoy