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THE
TORRENTS
OF SPRING
A Romantic Novel in Honor of the
Passing of a Great Race
by
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
And perhaps there is one reason why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
HENRY FIELDING
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MACMILLAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK