The Borzoi 1920/Contents

CONTENTS

		PAGE
Introduction	Maxim Gorky	ix
PART ONE
WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE BORZOI 1920		1
The Movies	Claude Bragdon	3
Maxwell Bodenheim	Witter Bynner	6
On the Art of Fiction	Willa Gather	7
Astonishing Psychic Experience	Clarence Day, Jr.	9
Max Beerbohm	Floyd Dell	12
Joseph Hergesheimer	Wilson Follett	15
On Drawing	A. P. Herbert	20
A Note on the Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley	Joseph Hergesheimer	24
Willa Gather	H. L. Mencken	28
Van Vechten	Philip Moeller	32
On H. L. Mencken	George Jean Nathan	34
A Sketch	Sidney L. Nyburg	37
Chant of the Nurses	Eunice Tietjens	41
A Memory of Ypres	H. M. Tomlinson	42
On the Advantages of Being Born on the Seventeenth of June	Carl Van Vechten	48
The Master of the Five Willows	Arthur Waley	52
PART TWO
A BRIEF WHO'S WHO OF WRITERS PARTICULARLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE BORZOI		53
PART THREE
SELECTED PASSAGES FROM BORZOI BOOKS		63
How He Died	Conrad Aiken	65
From "Youth and Egolatry"	Pío Baroja	68
From "The Romantic Woman"	Mary Borden	71
October	Robert Bridges	74
"Letters of a Javanese Princess"	Louis Couperus	75
April Charms	William H. Davies	79
A page from "The Three Mulla Mulgars"	Walter de la Mare	80
Burbank with a Baedeker; Bleistein with a Cigar	T. S. Eliot	81
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread"	E. M. Forster	83
Dorothy Easton's "The Golden Bird"	John Galsworthy	86
War and the Small Nations	Kahlil Gibran	88
A First Review	Robert Graves	89
Joe Ward	E. W. Howe	90
Doc Robinson	E. W. Howe	91
John Davis	E. W. Howe	92
Concerning "A Little Boy Lost"	W. H. Hudson	93
Ancient Music	Ezra Pound	96
Fire and the Heart of Man	J. C. Squire	97
Preface to "Deliverance"	E. L. Grant Watson	101
PART FOUR
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL BORZOI BOOKS FROM 25 SEPTEMBER 1915 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 1920		103
Postscript		133