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“Texts and Pretexts,” by Aldous Huxley ; “The Grasshoppers Come” and"A Rabbit in the . Air,” by David Garnett; “Ants,” by Julian Huxley. Phoenix Library, Vols. 100, 101 and 102 (London: Chatto and Windus). • / With Mr. Aldous Huxley’s anthology “Texts and Pretexts” the Phoenix Library brings up its discriminating selection to 100 volumes. The first issue in this attractive series was Lytton Strachey’s “Queen Victoria," and between that book and the last to date, Mr. Julian Huxley’s “Ants," there is wide variety, something to appeal to every taste with one feature constant to them all—a sound literary style. Not all the volumes have been reprints; some, among them Harold Munro’s anthology of twentieth century poetry, have appeared fqr the first time in this library. Chatto and Windus have performed a real service to the reading, and particularly the bookbuying, public by the issue in this pocketiize edition of so much firstdass modern literature. . ...... .:
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 174, 20 April 1935, Page 23
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