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ALDOUS HUXLEY

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MORTAL COILS
CROME YELLOW
LIMBO
LEDA: AND OTHER POEMS

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NOTES AND ESSAYS
By ALDOUS HUXLEY

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1923,

BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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CONTENTS

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I: CENTENARIES 9
II: ON RE-READING _CANDIDE_ 19
III: ACCIDIE 25
IV: SUBJECT-MATTER OF POETRY 32
V: WATER MUSIC 43
VI: PLEASURES 48
VII: MODERN FOLK POETRY 55
VIII: BIBLIOPHILY 62
IX: DEMOCRATIC ART 67
X: ACCUMULATIONS 74
XI: ON DEVIATING INTO SENSE 80
XII: POLITE CONVERSATION 86
XIII: NATIONALITY IN LOVE 94
XIV: HOW THE DAYS DRAW IN! 100
XV: TIBET 106
XVI: BEAUTY IN 1920 112
XVII: GREAT THOUGHTS 118
XVIII: ADVERTISEMENT 123
XIX: EUPHUES REDIVIVUS 129
XX: THE AUTHOR OF _EMINENT VICTORIANS_ 136
XXI: EDWARD THOMAS 143
XXII: A WORDSWORTH ANTHOLOGY 150
XXIII: VERHAEREN 155
XXIV: EDWARD LEAR 161
XXV: SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 167
XXVI: BEN JONSON 177
XXVII: CHAUCER 194

NOTE: Most of these Essays appeared in _The Athenæum_, under the title “Marginalia” and over the signature AUTOLYCUS. The others were first printed in _The Weekly Westminster Gazette_, _The London Mercury_ and _Vanity Fair_ (New York).

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