GUY THORNE
AUTHOR OF
"WHEN IT WAS DARK," "THE VINTAGE OF VICE" ETC.
"Close to your hand lies a little
volume, bound in some Nile-green skin
that has been pounded with gilded
nenuphars, and smoothed with hard
ivory. It is the book that Gautier
loved, it is Baudelaire's masterpiece."
OSCAR WILDE ("Intentions").