vilisation as the final word in
social wisdom should not read this book: or perhaps they should. Anyway,
everyone else should.

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PARISIAN PORTRAITS

BY FRANCIS GRIERSON

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_AN APPRECIATION OF FRENCH GENIUS_

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greatest interest, not only in virtue of the author's intimate knowledge
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Grierson is one of the few living Englishmen who thoroughly understand and
appreciate the French Genius. The book will be an enduring delight to all
lovers of fine literature.

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subtile critic of the arts, is one of those sudden new acquaintances that
assume immediate importance in one's world of thought.... Everywhere with
remarkable rectitude of perception, Mr Grierson puts his finger on the
real power, and it is always spiritual."

_The Spectator_ says:--"Mr Grierson has a right to speak, for he uses with
success one of the most difficult of literary forms, the essay."

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THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS

BY FRANCIS GRIERSON

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_MEMORIES OF LINCOLN'S COUNTRY_

In this book Mr Grierson recalls in vivid memories the wonderful romance
of his life in Lincoln's country before the war. "_The Valley of the
Shadows_ is not a novel," says Mr W. L. Courtney in the _Daily Telegraph_,
"yet in the graphic portraiture of spiritual and intellectual movements it
possesses an attraction denied to all but the most significant kind of
fiction.... With a wonderful touch Mr Grierson depicts scene after scene,
drawing the simple, native characters with bold, impressive strokes."

"Told with wonderful charm ... enthralling as any romance ... truth,
though often stranger than fiction, is almost always duller; Mr Grierson
has accomplished the rare feat of making it more interesting. There are
chapters in the book ... that haunt one afterwards like remembered music,
or like passages in the prose of Walter Pater."--_Punch._

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MODERN MYSTICISM

And Other Essays

BY FRANCIS GRIERSON

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_ORIGINAL, INCISIVE, SUBTLE, ACUTE_

This book embodies profound thinking expressed in an original a