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A. Edward Newton Writes Another Book

A MAGNIFICENT FARCE

And Other Diversions of a Book-Collector

Readers of THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING
need no introduction to Mr. Newton. Upon the appearance
of his first book, the Boston Transcript said: "His contribution
to the literature of book-collecting is the most notable of our
time," and in an amusing review, Christopher Morley wrote:

"A. Edward Newton has done more than enrich his own life with the joy of a
hobby. Like all good hobbyriders, he has hitched many and many a wander-
ing vehicle to his steed, and goes careering away with the caravan. Book-
lovers from many parts of the world have visited his fascinating treasury of
ink at Daylesford, Pa., where he has lovingly laid away some of the volumes
and manuscripts that are richest in literary association to lovers of our
tongue. Learned professors congregate about this merchant who knows
more about eighteenth century letters than many and many a diplomaed
doctor. The booksellers who scour the earth for the rarities of print and
paper keep his name in their private card indexes of heavenly caliphs of ink.
And in the meantime the genial cause of all this hubbub travels in and out
of Broad Street Station, quietly puffing a long cigar, with his nose adoringly
buried in Boswell's Johnson."

There is no more of the "dry-as-dust" in Mr. Newton's second book than in his
first. On the contrary it abounds in the same personal flavor, the same lively
humor, the same true appreciation of the best things in letters old and new.

Mr. Newton's collection of old prints, autographs, rare editions with pages capable of striking reproduction, appears to be inexhaustible. A MAGNIFICENT FARCE contains as many of these illustrations as THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING, and their variety and unfamiliarity—from Johnsoniana to the strictly contemporaneous-are perhaps even more remarkable. If one cannot collect such things at first hand, here is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with them.

It is essential that those who prefer the first impression of the Regular Edition should order at once, as it will undoubtedly be spoken for long before it is published, October 1st.

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