Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 13
... England , and by exten- sion America , when Arthur Machen's stirring fan- tasy , " The Bowmen " , appeared in the early months of World War I. That was a curious matter , from first to last . The author , then a special writer on a ...
... England , and by exten- sion America , when Arthur Machen's stirring fan- tasy , " The Bowmen " , appeared in the early months of World War I. That was a curious matter , from first to last . The author , then a special writer on a ...
Page 124
... England ) where he married the Squire's daughter Lucy ( or Clara ) and became a partner in the great shipping ... England , where he was joined by his American wife , and Leigh Hunt's birth in England was then only a matter of time ...
... England ) where he married the Squire's daughter Lucy ( or Clara ) and became a partner in the great shipping ... England , where he was joined by his American wife , and Leigh Hunt's birth in England was then only a matter of time ...
Page 125
... England ; and thereafter the relationship , although amiable enough , was a long domestic tragedy . Poverty stalked them to the end of the chapter , as it pursued the poet to the end of his own career . Other than a fine voice and a ...
... England ; and thereafter the relationship , although amiable enough , was a long domestic tragedy . Poverty stalked them to the end of the chapter , as it pursued the poet to the end of his own career . Other than a fine voice and a ...
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