Vol. VI No. 1 - Modernist Magazines Project

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THEPILLOW-BOOK OF SEISHONAGON
Translated, vitb introductory notes and framework, by ARTHUR WALEY
Sei Shonagon was a Court lady of tenth-century Japan, a
contemporary of Murasaki; her pillow-book (half memoirs,
half journal-intime) gives a picture of a truly unique civiliza­
tion, of a people of exquisite cultivation and most sophisticated
immorality. Her descriptions, pointed by delicate
humour and an acute observation, are as precisely vivid as a
Japanese print. 6s.
THE JOYS OF FORGETTING
By ODELL SHEPARD. These serious and whimsical essays
are designed to lure us away from the horrors of "modern progress"
back to the past, to our own childhood, to the land of
legend and play, the delectable countries of forgetting, js. 6d.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S
LETTERS TO A FRIEND
Edited by C. F. ANDREWS. These letters by the Indian
poet were written to his English friend and companion,
C. F. Andrews, who has worked with him since 1914. They
are full of lovely incidental things—descriptions, poems,
reflections, but in their serious content the reader will find
some of the deepest thoughts of the East about the West, and
consideration of some of India's most difficult problems, js. 6d.
BEN JONSON'S VOLPONE
Freely adapted by STEP AN ZWEIG. This brilliant adaptation
of a famous comedy has already been successfully performed
by the Theatre Guild of New York : cruel, amusing,
to be played allegro con brio. 6s.
PUNCH AND JUDY
Illustrated by CRUIKSHANK. Here is the famous puppetplay,
in a version more than a hundred years old, and full
of drolleries. $s. 6d.
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