THE FAIR
REWARDS


NEW BORZOI NOVELS

SPRING, 1922

Wanderers

Knut Hamsun

Men of Affairs

Roland Pertwee

The Fair Rewards

Thomas Beer

I Walked in Arden

Jack Crawford

Guest the One-Eyed

Gunnar Gunnarsson

The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield

The Longest Journey

E. M. Forster

The Soul of a Child

Edwin Björkman

Cytherea

Joseph Hergesheimer

Explorers of the Dawn

Mazo de la Roche

The White Kami

Edward Alden Jewell



THE
FAIR REWARDS

THOMAS BEER

Tell arts they have no soundness

But vary by esteeming

Tell schools they want profoundness

And stand too much on seeming”—

Ralegh

“Eh, sirs,” says Koshchei, “I contemplate the spectacle
with appropriate emotions.”

NEW YORK
ALFRED·A·KNOPF
1922


COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, February, 1922
Set up and electrotyped by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N.Y.
Paper furnished by S. D. Warren & Co., Boston, Mass.
Printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


To
M. A. A. B.