VIII

THE ARTS

[February-March, 1921]

THE

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ART—Reproductions of the graphic and plastic arts, as well as critical reviews of sculpture, painting, and music, form a permanent feature of every issue.

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THE
PRISONER
WHO SANG
—by Johan Bojer, a complete novel by the foremost Scandinavian fiction writer, will appear in the Spring numbers of THE DIAL.

The autobiography of William Butler Yeats—the life story of one of the most interesting characters among living men of letters, will be a 1921 feature of THE DIAL.

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