Way to Attain, The, a portion of Beroalde de Verville’s “Le Moyen de Parvenir” or FANTASTIC TALES, published in 1889 by Dryden Press.
Remarks Upon Hermodactylus, translated by Machen from the French of Lady Hester Stanhope. Published in 1933.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The man of letters, the practicing man of letters that is, finds himself doing all sorts of things in the practice of his trade. Machen was a working man of letters for most of his eighty-odd years. He wrote articles and “leaders” and “turn-overs” and “fills” and many another journalistic oddity. He composed calendars and catalogues in his time and, I daresay, book reviews. To attempt to collect or to list all of this material would be to display the Machen-mania in its most advanced stages.
This classification seems to me a proper one in which to include, for example, Machen’s first published work, the elusive Eleusinia, the classic Hieroglyphics, the autobiographical books and the collections of his works, certain prefaces and introductions and one or two of the better known catalogues and “fugitive pieces,” to use a rather pedantic term. I am being, I suppose, rather arbitrary here too, but I do not consider that every “fugitive piece” is worthy of the chase.
Anatomy of Tobacco, The, by Leolinus Siluriensis, published by George Redway, London, 1884 and Knopf, New York, 1925.
Cadby Hall, important mostly as a curiosity, an advertising booklet written for a London Confectioner.
Collector’s Craft, The, written as a supplement for a catalogue of rare books issued by First Edition Bookshop, London, 1923. Afterwards reprinted in limited edition as a booklet. Appeared also in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, New York, October, 1923.
Confessions of a Literary Man, articles appeared serially in the London EVENING NEWS, March to June, 1915. Published by Secker, 1922 and Knopf, 1922, as FAR OFF THINGS.