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 AMY LOWELL'S NEW BOOK

$1.25

This collection of stories in verse is divided into five sections—Figurines in Old Saxe, stories with Eighteenth Century backgrounds; Bronze Tablets, dealing with the "Napoleonic era; The Overgrown Pasture, studies of modern life in a New England hill town; War Pictures, a series of sketches which brings the war close to the reader, and Clocks Tick a Century, tales of modern life. The book opens with " Patterns," the poem to which Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite awarded first place in his list of distinctive poems for 1915. In "Sword Blades and Poppy Seed " Miss Lowell has shown her mastery of the story told in verse. In this volume free rein is given to her versatile imagination and the result is a new demonstration of Miss Lowell's genius, a book the individual pieces of which, whether written in old form or in new, are all instinct with force and fire.

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