New-York tribune., 1922-08-06

tne foundation during the
past few years Of number Of
amateur" publishing houses
winch specialize in the production of
good books which the ordinary COM
merciai publisher would be afraid to
put in his list. These presses are usu-
ally run by enthusiasts, and the books
which they turn out are nearly always
we'll printed and handsomely bound.
Inc three most successful of our free
lance publishers are the "Egoist Press"
the Golden Cockerel Press" and the
hogarth Press" and each of them has
given US books of first rate interest.
which might not otherwise have found
their way into print. The "Egoist
Press' is the oldest of the three and
pas the most distinguished record Dur
ing the past six years it has issued
The poems of T, S. Ehot, James Joyce's
Portrait Of the Artist As YOUNG
Man" and "Tarr" and "The Caliph's De-
sign" by Wyndham Lewis It is now
rumored that an English edition of
Ulysses" viii be published by this
press Tor subscribers only. ] hope and
trust that the enterprise may be sue
cess; 1t is certainly courageous.
The Golden Cockerelo press lives, /
believe, in Bucknghamshire, some
twenty or thirty miles from London.
~ is an experiment in "co-opergtive
book productiou"~-wh that NAV
precisely mean. Ut suggests-to me.
at all eyente--a pleasant country cot
age inhabited by a group Of young
poets wlth high ideals and wavy hair.)
Whether as the result of "co-ooeration"
or not, rs publications have all been a.
GIT to the eye, while in A. =. Cop
pard 1T has discovered poet and short
story writer OF unusual charms. Mr..
Coppard's first book, adam and Eva
ana p1nch Nc" is likely to acquire
considerable first edition" value be-
tore many years have passed.
The Hogarth Press has its head
quarters at Richmond and specializes
IN transiations from the Russian. It,
| latest publication is the native and
rather painful autobiography of Count
ess Sophie Tolstoy, which has been
translated by Mr. S, Koteliansky and
Mr.. Leonard Woolf.
The Sitwell family continues to en-
livcn literary London by it's pranks.
| osbert Sitwell, who is one of the best
satlrlsts we have had for many years,
has revived with great effect the eight
teenth century lampoon. His particu-
lar betes noires are Messrs. J. C..
squire; Edward Shanks and others OF
the London Mercury" group, who
award each other prizes and laudatory
reviews with such depressing regular
lty. He brought in to me yesterday
the MS. of his latest effort, which is
called "Jolly Old Squire and Shanks's
Mares Nest" If it ever gets published
we shall have some fun. 1t will be in
teresting to see how the "Squirearchy"
defends itself against ridicule.
| was delighted to notice in recent
issue Of The New York Tribune an ap-
probation of Louis Wilkinson's novel,
"The Buffoon." Wilkinson's books all
seem to me to have tang and flavor
quite unlike any other modern novel.
He has a. peculiar mechancete which
is all his own, and his humor has a
sharp edge to it, like French vermouth
The novel on which he is now at work
is, he tells me, to be a character study
in which the Celtic and the Saxon
temperaments are shown in contrast.
He writes very slowly and destroys
much manuscript, but believe the
new book is about half finished.
+ The popularity of Dean Inge-our
gloomy Dean" - is smazing. Over
twenty thousand copies of his first
book of essays have been sold and
+ his Forthcoming volume, "Outspoken
Essays" is certain to be equally popu-
lar / suppose the secret of it is that
Dean Inge disapproves of the present
age and is not ashamed to be thor
oughly Victorian in most of his ideas
on politics and morality. Large sec
alike by Lloyd-Georgian politics and
by the morality of the modern girl,
are getting back to grandmother" as
hastily as possible. Dean Inge, like
a stern but kind old nurse, shows them
the way home
Garnett has just published new vol
ume of literary essays, called "Fridsy
Nights" | suppose few people, even
in London, realize how much Garnett
has done for modern English litera
ture. During the many years which
he has spent as publishers reader
for Duckworth g. Co. and other firms,
he has "discovered" an extraordinary
number of good writers and encour-
aged many a struggling genius by his
generous and discerning praise. Mrs
Garnett is, sof course, we'll known as
the translator of Turgenev, Tchekor
and Dostoievsky. Their son, David
Garnett, runs bookshop in partner
ship with Mr.. Augustine ~Birrelps son,
Francis Birrell. I need hardly say
that 1t is very unusual kind of book
shop.