Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 by Various
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page 20 of 68 (29%)
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* * * * * Our Burwash correspondent informs us that, not content with the re-incarnation of _Mowgli_, Mr. KIPLING has completed a new romance of wandering life in India, not unlike _Kim_ in treatment, to be entitled _The Great Trunk Road_. * * * * * An album has just come to light, the value of which is beyond computation. On the faded leaves of this book, which once belonged to Fanny Brawne, are inscribed three new poems in KEATS'S own hand. Not mere album verses, but poems of the highest importance, equal to rank to the Odes to the Grecian Urn and the Nightingale. The book itself will be sold by auction next week, but meanwhile the poems are to be issued in pamphlet form by Sir SIDNEY COLVIN. * * * * * An enterprising firm of publishers announces for immediate publication a volume by President WILSON, entitled _From White House to Buckingham Palace_. This work is in the form of a diary of singular frankness, and it contains some vivid accounts of conversations as well as the writer's honest opinion of some of the most prominent personages of the moment. * * * * * Admirers of O. HENRY will be excited to hear that a bundle of MS. |
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