=PROSE FANCIES=; second series, by the author of “The Book-bills of
Narcissus,” etc., with a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo.
$1.25.
“In these days of Beardsley pictures and decadent novels, it is
good to find a book as sweet, as pure, as delicate as Mr. Le
Gallienne’s.”--NEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE.
“PROSE FANCIES ought to be in everyone’s summer library, for it is
just the kind of a book one loves to take to some secluded spot to
read and dream over.”--KANSAS CITY TIMES.
“There are witty bits of sayings by the score, and sometimes whole
paragraphs of nothing but wit. Somewhere there is a little skit
about ‘Scotland, the country that takes its name from the whisky
made there,’ and the transposed proverb like: ‘It is an ill wind for
the shorn lamb,’ and ‘Many rise on the stepping stones of their dead
relations,’ are brilliant. ‘Most of us would never be heard of were
it not for our enemies,’ is a capital epigram.”--CHICAGO
TIMES-HERALD.
“Mr. Le Gallienne is first of all a poet, and these little essays,
which savor somewhat of Lamb, of Montaigne, of Lang, and of Birrell,
are larded with verse of exquisite grace. He rarely ventures into
the grotesque, but his fancy follows fair paths; a certain
quaintness of expression and the idyllic atmosphere of the book
charm one at the beginning and carry one through the nineteen
‘fancies’ that comprise the volume.”--CHICAGO RECORD.