PIPEFULS
"These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p.m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper."
The Author
"Envelops in clouds of fragrant English many quaint ideas about life, living, and literature ... A belated Elizabethan who has strayed into the twentieth century! These piping little essays are mellow and leisurely!"—The Sun, New York
Pipefuls, $1.75
KATHLEEN—a story
"Kathleen" is about an Oxford undergraduate prank. Members of a literary club, The Scorpions, agree to write a serial story on shares. They invent a tale around certain names in an accidentally found letter signed "Kathleen." Their romantic fervor soon takes them off together in search of the real author of the letter. One suspects that Mr. Morley, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, might have been up to just such pranks. Anyway, consider this dedication: "TO THE REAL KATHLEEN—With Apologies." His comedy is as interesting as his essays, its humor pointed by the rapid flow of action.
Kathleen, $1.25