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PREFACE
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Three Soldiers and of giving none at all to that still more recent masterpiece Cytherea. While criticism pauses to take stock, creation steadily goes on.

Acknowledgments are due The Nation for permission to reprint from its pages those portions of the volume which have already been published there.

Carl Van Doren.

March, 1922.