By MYRTLE REED Author of “A Spinner in the Sun,” “The Master’s Violin,” etc.
The love affairs of literary men seem to have an unfailing hold upon the general sympathy, and a stronger hold, it might be said, than the sentimental experiences of any other class of people. In this book, Miss Reed has briefly retold the stories of the lovers of the group of writers who are assured, all of them, of immortal places in English literature. Here we may read of the mysterious, double love affair of Swift with Stella and Vanessa, of Pope’s almost grotesque attempts at the role of lover, of Dr. Johnson’s ponderous affections, of Sterne’s sentimental philanderings, and of Cowper’s relations with the fair sex. We are told too of the loves of Keats and Shelley, a story in the former case distressingly painful, in the latter a tale in which the tragic and the joyous are woven in a mingled web. Here, too, we meet Edgar Allan Poe as a lover; and we read of Carlyle’s wooing, and peruse the unpleasant, but not uninteresting, chronicle of his married life which resulted so unhappily for Mrs. Carlyle.
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By Rida Johnson Young and Gilbert P. Coleman
A delightful and dramatic story of modern college life based upon the successful play of the same name. It will be found true to both local color and spirit of the University where the scene is laid. A lively and stirring plot, with ingenious and surprising incidents and a striking denouement, seizes the reader’s attention at the start and holds it to the end.
_With 8 Full-page Illustrations from Photographs_ _of the Play. Crown 8vo, $1.50_
“_A superb social satire._” Illustrated London News
“If there is any competition going on for the finest novel of the year, best drawn characters in modern fiction, or the coming novelist, my votes unhesitatingly go to _The Country House_, to _Mr. Barter_, to _Mrs. Pendyce_ and to Mr. John Galsworthy.”
“A book that exhibits wide sympathies, genuine observation, and a quiet humor of its own. Whatever Mr. Galsworthy writes possesses an irresistible appeal for the readers of cultivated tastes.”