The Borzoi 1920

by Inc. Alfred A. Knopf

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 Cather	[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 Cather	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 Couperas	[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	[92]
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]