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Arthur Machen is the most wonderful man writing English today. His material is handled with the most consummate art; arrangement, reserve, repose, the perfect word, are never lacking from his work. What a teller of stories!

Mr. Machen is among the greatest of English artists in prose.

DOG AND DUCK

A charming book of essays in the Dickens manner, treating of old English holidays and customs, book collecting, food, drink, and divers oddments. A volume which represents Mr. Machen in his happiest and most casual mood.

THE HOUSE OF SOULS

Here are four magical sparkling short stories, told with a Cabellian witchery of sound and color, which create a sense of terror and astonishment in the reader.

Remarkable stories, two of them the most remarkable written in this generation.

THE HILL OF DREAMS

A full length novel which relates the strange and mystic adventures of a boy on the quest of artistry.

His greatest work. In this he proves his right to sit with that group of imaginative artists—Sir Thomas Browne, Malory, Poe, DeQuincey, and Coleridge—a group where every one is a master. The Hill of Dreams is his masterpiece of mysticism.

HIEROGLYPHICS

In this fascinating volume, written in the form of a series of conversations, Arthur Machen develops his theory of the art of literature, running over the whole field of letters from the time of the Greeks to our own day. Under the classification of books about books, this may be considered one of the best.