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From A Southern Porch

Dorothy Scarborough

A Book of Whimsy

The author does not preach the lost art of loafing. No! Nothing so direct as preaching. She merely loafs,--consistently, restfully, delightfully, but with an almost fatal hypnotic persuasiveness. She is a sort of stationary Pied Piper, luring the unwary reader to her sun-flecked porch, to watch with her the queer procession of created things go by,--from lovers and ghosts to lizards and toads.

Under the spell, convinced that loafing is better than doing, the reader stays and chuckles over the quiet humor and quaint fancies. He gets away finally,--all delightful experiences must end in this work-a-day world,--still chuckling, but with a renewed sense of life and life's values.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York London

The Kiltartan Poetry Book

Prose Translations from the Irish

Lady Gregory

Author of "Irish Folk-History Plays," "Seven Short Plays," "Our Irish Theatre," etc.

Certainly no single individual has done more than Lady Gregory to revive the Irish Literature, and to bring again to light the brave old legends, the old heroic poems. From her childhood, the author has studied this ancient language, and has collected most of her material from close association with the peasants who have inherited these poems and tales.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York London

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