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C. E. S. WOOD
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to certain books of the Bible." Another edition was published in 1929 by The Vanguard Press, New York. It is a long poem of 124 pages, in blank verse, with an 8-page prologue that scarcely has a parallel as a word picture of the desert. The whole consists of a dialogue between the Poet and Truth. It was published when he was 63. In it the philosophy previously referred to, is repeated:

"Nature has named Love holy,
But man has named his mumbled Marriage holier than Love."

Out of the Darkness. A Christmas Revel. 1917.

A prose pamphlet.

Feudalism the Fire. Help Burn It Up. Support Wilson and His War Aims. A Letter and Comments by C. E. S. Wood. June, 1918.

A pamphlet of 27 pages.

Maia. A Sonnet Sequence. Portland. 1918.

"One hundred and eighty-six copies of this book were printed by the author at the printing house of F. W. Baltes and Company, in Portland, Oregon. Completed May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Seen through the press by John Julius Johnck and Arthur Purdy, printers."

Author's Edition, 73 pages, priced at $50. The 22nd and 63rd sonnets by Sara Bard Field.

Circe. Portland. F. W. Baltes and Company. 1919.

Heavenly Discourse. New York. The Vanguard Press. 1927.

With drawings by Art Young. Introduction by Floyd Dell. Prose satires, of 325 pages, originally contributed to the magazine Masses. It reached seven editions within a year after its first book publication.

Poems from the Ranges. San Francisco. The Lantern Press. Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc. 1929.

A book of poems. "Printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929. The frontispiece designed and cut on wood by Ray Boynton. This edition consists of 50 copies on handmade paper, signed and numbered 1 to 50, and 450 copies numbered 51 to 500."

Too Much Government. New York. The Vanguard Press. 1931.

Not important as literature. "His own constructive philosophy of government." The list of topics includes the Mann act, prohibition,