14 Amatory. Ephemera. Greek Prose Poems. By Mitchell S. Buck. 8vo. boards, vellum backs, uncut. Philadelphia, 1916. $2.25
Edition limited to 750 copies printed entirely on Japan paper. The two series of antique sketches contained in this volume show the art of rhythmic prose, so successfully used in French by such writers as Baudelaire and Pierre Louys, presented directly in the English language.
A keen perception of beauty has not distorted a necessary faithfulness to subject-matter; and those who still admire the flowers of past ages will find them here, still fragrant.
15 Amatory. Longinus on the Sublime. Translated into English by H. L. Havell. With a 12-page introduction by Andrew Lang. Post 8vo. original cloth, uncut. London, 1890 Scarce. $5.00
First Edition, in regard to Andrew Lang's Introduction. Scarce. Lang item.
16 Amatory. The Thousand and One Days. Persian Tales. Edited by Justin Huntley McCarthy. Frontispiece. 2 vols. Post 8vo. original boards, vellum backs, uncut. London, 1892. $5.00
If the Thousand and One Days are not such splendid stories as The Thousand and One Nights, what stories in the world are so splendid? We may love the (The Thousand and One Nights) with all our hearts, and yet be willing to welcome The Thousand and One Days for the sake of that enchanted and enchanting Orient of which they tell.
17 Amatory. For a Night. By Emile Zola. Translated by Alison M. Lederer. 8vo. cloth. Phila., 1911. $1.00
The imaginative realism, the poetic psychology, of this story of the abnormal Therese who kills her lover; of the simple-minded Julien who becomes an accessory after the act for love of her, and finally "let himself fall" into the river, having first dropped the body of Colombel over, are gripping and intense.