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142 book is there,—my, how the man can write—the style that The Westminster Gazette said was "in many ways reminiscent of Defoe's ... the model of the plain tale ... in which no artistic method of purpose obtrudes itself, but which nevertheless makes a single decisive artistic effect on the reader." Some other poetry will be Richard Aldington's "Medallions in Clay," translations mostly from the Greek; Conrad Aiken's "Punch: the Immortal Liar"—a splendid title I think—and a volume by Michael Strange to be illustrated by John Barrymore. Andre Tridon will have a new volume entitled "Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams," Joseph Hergesheimer expects to gather into "The Meeker Ritual" those stories which attracted so much attention when they appeared in The Century, and H. L. Mencken's "In Defense of Women," at present out of print, will be reissued—reset from an entirely revised manuscript. Mencken's "The American Language," by the way, greatly enlarged, revised and entirely reset, will be published (probably in two large volumes) in the fall of 1921.

Other books that I expect to have ready in the spring are "Deadlock," the sixth volume in Dorothy Richardson's now famous Pilgrimage Series, a fifth volume in Mencken's The Free Lance Books, "Democracy and the Will to Power," by James N. Wood, and a unique anthology of Devil Stories for which the editor, Dr. Maximilian J. Rudwin, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, has drawn on the literature of many countries. Dr. Rudwin has planned a series of diabolical anthologies of which this is to be the first. I could go on, I suppose more or less indefinitely unfolding my plans for the future—they lay, didn't Clarence Day say earlier in this book, "like onions on rafters"—but one must stop sometime and so I will speak only of two other books, both of them really unusual. One, "In the Claws of the Dragon," is a novel dealing with