that, when all deductions
have been made and elements of crudeness, reaction and extravagance
fully allowed for, Whitman's contribution to literature has the
uniqueness and the solidity claimed for it by his admirers and by
himself. The book differs from others in endeavouring more explicitly to
exhibit the relation of Whitman's form and style to those of
conventional literature and to justify his apparent anomalies. Whitman's
peculiar use of language, his love of specification and cataloguing,
etc., are explained in reference to the underlying purposes of language
generally. His identification as a man with humanity, as an artist with
America, are shown to have been genuine forces in him, available for
expression and the real spring of his work.

Demy Octavo (9 in. by 5-1/2 in.)

With Portrait. Price 7s. 6d. net.

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Dramatic Portraits

By P. P. HOWE

THROUGHOUT this book a particular point of view has been adhered to,
from which the drama is looked upon as a separate art from literature,
and from which especial attention is paid to the manner of its practice.
Thus nearly all the plays of the dramatists passed under review are to
be studied in book form, but they are spoken of here, as far as
possible, in terms of their actual presentation in the theatre. The
dramatists include Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Oscar Wilde, Henry James,
Bernard Shaw, Barrie, Granville Barker, Hankin, Galsworthy and
Masefield. It is a book for all playgoers who have done their playgoing
in the English theatre of the past twenty-five years. The portraits
which illustrate it are from camera studies by Mr. E. O. Hoppe,
reproduced by a new process which does full justice to his original
prints.

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Illustrated. Price 5s. net.

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Speculative Dialogues

By LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

These dialogues are the work of a poet and critic who has rapidly
achieved distinction, and although their primary purpose is to suggest a
philosophic attitude towards modern metaphysical problems, they stand to
be judged as literature as well as philosophy. Mr. Abercrombie's
attitude, one of individualism and Pyrrhonism, makes itself clear in the
course of a series of dialogues between such personified abstractions as
Famine and Pestilence, War and Murder, Science and the World; Philosophy
and an Angel.

Wide Crown Octavo (7-1/2 in. by 5 in.