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 By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Crown 8vo. 6s.

THE CENTAUR

STANDARD. "In The Centaur Mr. Blackwood has called out our entire admiration and, what is to him doubtless of more im- portance still, our conviction. We believe in his Centaur, we believe in that wonderful moment when O'Malley went back to that primitive splendour of an early world, we believe in the great winds and rushing forms and shadowy clouds, we believe finally in that last pathos of O'Malley's death. Mr. Blackwood in The Centaur has written a book of complete, consistent beauty. . . . The Centaur is not only Mr. Blackwood's best work ; it is also a book that will to the O'Malleys of the world be a gift that they can never too highly acknowledge."

PUNCH. " A fortunate reader, happening upon The Centaur, might well delight himself in it but yet hesitate to recommend it to his friends. His hesitation would be due to his poor opinion not of the book but of the friends. . . . With no reservations, we insist upon the splendour of the history and the beauty of the idea of this book."

PALL MALL GAZETTE." It is a book of strange wonders : there is greatness in the conception, there is power in the execution, while the literary excellence is of the finest quality, the arresting phrase checking and holding the attention in every chapter."

WORLD. "Very rarely indeed is a book so curious and so arresting as The Centaur given to the reading public. ... A singularly fine book."

GLOBE. "The book is a great, even daring, achievement, one inspired with a fine and intense conviction, and written by a master of imaginative description. "

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