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SOME BORZOI BOOKS
FINDERS by John V. A. Weaver POEMS by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt INTO THE DARK by Barbra Ring GOLDEN BIRD by James Oppenheim LITERARY LIGHTS by Gene Markey YOUR HIDDEN POWERS by James Oppenheim FOX FOOTPRINTS by Elizabeth J. Coatsworth THE STORY OF THE MIKADO by W. S. Gilbert A LINE O’ GOWF OR TWO by Bert Leston Taylor THE WORLD IN FALSEFACE by George Jean Nathan
THE ROVING CRITIC
CARL VAN DOREN
NEW YORK ALFRED · A · KNOPF 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. Published, March, 1923 Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York. Bound by H. Wolff Estate, New York. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO GUY, FRANK, MARK, PAUL
These essays, sketches, and reviews are reprinted, with the courteous permission of the various publishers, from The Atlantic Monthly, The Literary Review, The Nation, and The Texas Review.