One Hundred Best Books Part 8

Rabelais d.i.c.kens Thomas Hardy Dante Goethe Walter Pater Shakespeare Matthew Arnold Dostoievsky El Greco Sh.e.l.ley Edgar Allan Poe Milton Keats Walt Whitman Charles Lamb Nietzsche Conclusion

G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS a.s.sOCIATION

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK

SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS

ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS BY JOHN COWPER POWYS

_The Book News Monthly_ said of "Visions and Revisions":

"Not one line in the entire book that is not tense with thought and feeling."

The author of "Visions and Revisions" says of this new book of essays:

"In 'Suspended Judgments' I have sought to express with more deliberation and in a less spasmodic manner than in 'Visions,' the various after-thoughts and reactions both intellectual and sensational which have been produced in me, in recent years, by the re-reading of my favorite writers. I have tried to capture what might be called the 'psychic residuum' of earlier fleeting impressions and I have tried to turn this emotional aftermath into a permanent contribution--at any rate for those of similar temperament--to the psychology of literary appreciation.

"To the purely critical essays in this volume I have added a certain number of others dealing with what, in popular parlance, are called 'general topics,' but what in reality are always--in the most extreme sense of that word--personal to the mind reacting from them. I have called the book 'Suspended Judgments' because while one lives, one grows, and while one grows, one waits and expects."

SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS CONTAINS THESE ESSAYS:

THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION IN LITERATURE

MONTAIGNE EMILY BRONTe PASCAL JOSEPH CONRAD VOLTAIRE HENRY JAMES ROUSSEAU OSCAR WILDE BALZAC AUBREY BEARDSLEY VICTOR HUGO DE MAUPa.s.sANT FRIENDS ANATOLE FRANCE RELIGION PAUL VERLAINE LOVE REMY DE GOURMANT CITIES WILLIAM BLAKE MORALITY BYRON EDUCATION

G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS a.s.sOCIATION

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK

"Rhymes or Real Poems?"--_Boston Globe_

WOLF'S--BANE

RHYMES BY JOHN COWPER POWYS

In these remarkable poems Mr. Powys strikes a new and startlingly unfamiliar note; their interest lies in the fact that they are the unaffected outcries and protests of a soul in exile, and their originality is to be found in that they sweep aside all facile and commonplace consolations and give expression to the natural and incurable sadness of the heart of man.

NEW YORK EVENING POST says: "As regards what Mr. Powys modestly calls his 'rhymes,' we hesitate to say how many years it is necessary to go back in order to find their equals in sheer poetic originality."

BOOK NEWS MONTHLY says: "Such poems as those are worthy of a permanent existence in literature."

KANSAS CITY STAR says: "It is unmistakably verse of lasting quality."

THE WAR AND CULTURE

An Answer to Professor Musterberg

By JOHN COWPER POWYS

Mr. Powys says of this book that he has sought to correct that plausible and superficial view of the Russian people as "the half-civilised legions to whom we have taught killing by machinery"--a view to which even so independent a thinker as George Bernard Shaw appears to have fallen a victim.

The _Nation_ says:--"It is more weighty than many of the more pretentious treatises on the subject."

THE SOLILOQUY OF A HERMIT

By THEODORE FRANCIS POWYS

A profoundly original interpretation of life by the great lecturer's hermit brother of which the Dial, Chicago says: "Truly a satirist and humorist of a different kidney from the ordinary sort is this companionable hermit. There is many a chuckle in his little book."

G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS a.s.sOCIATION

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK

BOOKS BY I.B. STOUGHTON HOLBORN

CHILDREN OF FANCY

This volume has a special claim to attention as the poet was invited to read these poems at Oxford University at the 1915 Summer Meeting.

The Oxford Chronicle in a long account "of one of the greatest pleasures provided for the Meeting," remarked that "the ideal is perfectly attained when the poet can recite his own poems with the artistry with which Mr. Holborn introduced to his audience his charming 'Children of Fancy.'"