The Faggot

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 14

The Faggot

A Bookman’s Bundle FOUR “Filings,” contributed to the New York Herald-Tribune “Books” Supplement by Richard Aldington: TO ONE DISSATISFIED. In summer, you complain of heat; In winter, of cold; In love, of women’s instability; Out of love, of boredom. Take courage, brother; In the grave you will find Neither women nor thermometers. * * * Nature is only impressive \Vhen accidentally composed Into the forms of human art. The structure of one spike Of delphinium blossom. However, Troubles this certainty. * * -*■ Do not be afraid to say Things said before. AH elms produce similar leaves each year; They are of practical value to the elm And sometimes please the passer’s eye. In any case It is of no importance. * * •» To believe in relics and angels Seems curious and superstitious. But it is far more superstitious. Far more curious, To believe in happiness. * * A poem by Miss Gertrude Stein: It is it is it is it is. If it and as if it, if it or as if it, if it is as if it, and it is as if it and as if it. Or as if it. More as if it. As more. As more as if it. And if it. And for and as if it. If it was to be a prize a surprise if it was to be a surprise to realise, if it was to be if it were to be, was it to be. What was it to be. It was to be what it was. And it was. So it was. As it was. As it is. Is it as it as. It is and as it is and as it is. And so and so as it was. Keep it in sight all right. •h- -* -* Marvell’s “Lines to His Coy Mistress,” Ford Madox Ford says, was lately adjudged by a group of French critics to be the loveliest poem in English. ■sc- * Of writers who confess to great i reluctance in approaching the task °f writing, Thornton Wilder is a con- i spicuous example. He confesses it in his preface to his book of playlets, “The Angel That Troubled the Waters”—his phrase is “an inertia so great that it barely permits me to write at all.” * *- * One of the finest copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays has been sold by an English peer to Mr B. J. Beyer, the New York bookseller, for “nearer £20,000 than £10,000.” This copy, which is not recorded in Sir Sidney Lee’s census, is in a wonderful state of preservation. Its existence was almost unknown except to its late owner. Edinburgh is, according to one concert promoter, the most musical city in Great Britain. After it come Glasgow and Dundee..