Precious balms

ELEUSINIA THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY THE GREAT GOD PAN THE THREE IMPOSTORS HIEROGLYPHICS DR STIGGINS THE HOUSE OF SOULS THE HILL OF DREAMS THE BOWMEN THE G...

This book is gruesome, ghastly, and dull. Mr Machen has done his best with an impossible subject, but although men and women who are morbid and unhealthy in mind may find someth...

A young man is infected by some loathsome disease. As the malady grows upon him he takes to his room, locks himself in, and his food is left at his door. Finally his sister disc...

Mr Arthur Machen’s attractive-looking volume with above quaint title is a little difficult to understand—namely, why was it written and why published? It purports to be records...

_The Philistine as Art’s Helper._—Every now and then some person rises up in England to protest against the restrictions by which a vulgar and uninstructed Philistinism cribs, c...

... There is much fine writing, but probably few other than literary craftsmen will follow with patience the detailed story of his striving after perfection in the use of langua...

A schoolboy is also the central figure in “The Secret Glory,” by Arthur Machen. But Ambrose Meyrick is an unusual boy, not at all the sort of boy to conform to the average type...

Mr Arthur Machen is a modest man: he says so himself; but his modesty is of that most profitable kind—to the world, we mean, of course—which inspired Montaigne, Cowley, “Elia,”...

M. Machen connut bien des vicissitudes; il fut reporter, puis libraire, et il put ainsi satisfaire son goût insatiable de livres rares et curieux, et en particulier d’ouvrages o...

Indeed, though the mystical side of his character is the most interesting and the satirical the most entertaining, his Rabelaisian gusto for the good things of life sets them bo...