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a wealth of action and suggestion in the "foreword", "The Red Retreat", The Haggis of Private McPhee", "The Odessy of 'Erbert 'iggins", "Fleurette", the first verse of "Funk", "Jean Desprez", The Ballad of Soulful Same", "The Coward", and "Afternoon Tea". I am not a poetry gobbler, but the rough drawings in the lines ^[[above]] were as much a treat to me as anything ^[[that]] [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] the best short story writers, of this era, could furnish.

To be well read is to keep reading right up to the minute. If a book is sugar-coated and a wretched pill it is easy to set the author out of the mind-catalogue, and for Future generations the books that ^[[will] live will be easily enough picked out and marked in the present. I, for one, do not accept the critics' biased view as to the merits or demerits of a new volume. His opinion is one to be respected because of his experience, but he is not absolute any more than the man who writes a treatise on Etiquette. I like to read a book and argue its' worth to me in terms of enjoyment and experience.