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 125
... delightful book , the Auto- biography of Leigh Hunt , written in middle life when its author had forgotten dates and details- if , indeed , he ever knew them . Apparently two years elapsed between Isaac's hasty departure from Amer- ican ...
... delightful book , the Auto- biography of Leigh Hunt , written in middle life when its author had forgotten dates and details- if , indeed , he ever knew them . Apparently two years elapsed between Isaac's hasty departure from Amer- ican ...
Page 147
... delightful little poem ? The Tired Business Man We don't hear much nowadays about the Tired Business Man , that straw man of the earlier reviewers who read unknown quantities of " light " literature presumably after a hard day at the of ...
... delightful little poem ? The Tired Business Man We don't hear much nowadays about the Tired Business Man , that straw man of the earlier reviewers who read unknown quantities of " light " literature presumably after a hard day at the of ...
Page 235
... delightful etude on Desert Islands . In the history of books , this modest extravagan- za , which Boston once refused to licence , is numbered among the Utopias perhaps ; it may have been a satire on some of them . De la Mare describes ...
... delightful etude on Desert Islands . In the history of books , this modest extravagan- za , which Boston once refused to licence , is numbered among the Utopias perhaps ; it may have been a satire on some of them . De la Mare describes ...
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