=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.