CONTENTS
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Introduction | Maxim Gorky | ix |
PART ONE | ||
WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE BORZOI 1920 | 1 | |
The Movies | Claude Bragdon | 3 |
Maxwell Bodenheim | Witter Bynner | 6 |
On the Art of Fiction | Willa Gather | 7 |
Astonishing Psychic Experience | Clarence Day, Jr. | 9 |
Max Beerbohm | Floyd Dell | 12 |
Joseph Hergesheimer | Wilson Follett | 15 |
On Drawing | A. P. Herbert | 20 |
A Note on the Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley | Joseph Hergesheimer | 24 |
Willa Gather | H. L. Mencken | 28 |
Van Vechten | Philip Moeller | 32 |
On H. L. Mencken | George Jean Nathan | 34 |
A Sketch | Sidney L. Nyburg | 37 |
Chant of the Nurses | Eunice Tietjens | 41 |
A Memory of Ypres | H. M. Tomlinson | 42 |
On the Advantages of Being Born on the Seventeenth of June | Carl Van Vechten | 48 |
The Master of the Five Willows | Arthur Waley | 52 |
PART TWO | ||
A BRIEF WHO'S WHO OF WRITERS PARTICULARLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE BORZOI | 53 | |
PART THREE | ||
SELECTED PASSAGES FROM BORZOI BOOKS | 63 | |
How He Died | Conrad Aiken | 65 |
From "Youth and Egolatry" | Pío Baroja | 68 |
From "The Romantic Woman" | Mary Borden | 71 |
October | Robert Bridges | 74 |
"Letters of a Javanese Princess" | Louis Couperus | 75 |
April Charms | William H. Davies | 79 |
A page from "The Three Mulla Mulgars" | Walter de la Mare | 80 |
Burbank with a Baedeker; Bleistein with a Cigar | T. S. Eliot | 81 |
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" | E. M. Forster | 83 |
Dorothy Easton's "The Golden Bird" | John Galsworthy | 86 |
War and the Small Nations | Kahlil Gibran | 88 |
A First Review | Robert Graves | 89 |
Joe Ward | E. W. Howe | 90 |
Doc Robinson | E. W. Howe | 91 |
John Davis | E. W. Howe | 92 |
Concerning "A Little Boy Lost" | W. H. Hudson | 93 |
Ancient Music | Ezra Pound | 96 |
Fire and the Heart of Man | J. C. Squire | 97 |
Preface to "Deliverance" | E. L. Grant Watson | 101 |
PART FOUR | ||
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL BORZOI BOOKS FROM 25 SEPTEMBER 1915 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 1920 | 103 | |
Postscript | 133 |