The Borzoi 1920

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CONTENTS:


Foreword — Alfred A. Knopf
Introduction — Maxim Gorky


PART ONE - WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE BORZOI 1920
The Movies — Claude Bragdon
Maxwell Bodenheim — Witter Bynner
On the Art of Fiction — Willa Cather
Astonishing Psychic Experience — Clarence Day, Jr.
Max Beerbohm — Floyd Dell
Joseph Hergesheimer — Wilson Follett
On Drawing — A. P. Herbert
A Note on the Chinese Poems — translated by Arthur Waley and Joseph Hergesheimer
Willa Cather — H. L. Mencken
Van Vechten — Philip Moeller
On H. L. Mencken — George Jean Nathan
A Sketch — Sidney L. Nyburg
Chant of the Nurses — Eunice Tietjens
A Memory of Ypres — H. M. Tomlinson
On the Advantages of Being Born on the Seventeenth of June — Carl Van Vechten
The Master of the Five Willows — Arthur Waley


PART TWO - A BRIEF WHO’S WHO OF WRITERS PARTICULARLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE BORZOI


PART THREE - SELECTED PASSAGES FROM BORZOI BOOKS
How He Died — Conrad Aiken
From “Youth and Egolatry” — Pio Baroja
From “The Romantic Woman” — Mary Borden
October — Robert Bridgdes
“Letters of a Javanese Princess” — Louis Couperus
April Charms — William H. Davies
A page from “The Three Mulla Mulgars” — Walter de la Mare
Burbank with a Baedeker; Bleistein with a Cigar — T. S. Eliot
From “ Where Angels Fear to Tread” — E. M. Forster
Dorothy Easton’s “The Golden Bird” — John Galsworthy
War and the Small Nations — Kahlil Gibran
A First Review — Robert Graves
Joe Ward — E. W. Howe
Doc Robinson — E. W. Howe
John Davis — E. W. Howe
Concerning “A Little Boy Lost” — W. H. Hudson
Ancient Music — Ezra Pound
Fire and the Heart of Man — J. C. Squire
Preface to “Deliverance” — E. L. Grant Watson


PART FOUR - A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL BORZOI BOOKS FROM 25 SEPTEMBER 1915 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 1920


Postscript