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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18906, 22 January 1927, Page 13

A penetrating note on Swinburne by Mr Desmond McCarthy in the "Empire Review": Gratitude for the gifts of the imagination was in Swinburne an emotion indistinguishable from worship. When lie wrote ho set up an altar festooned with alliterative sentences and looped about with garlands of fruits and flowers gathered from every clime and period of literature; and then, before the kindled fire of his own enthusiasm, he celebrated rites so sonorous and exuberant that the frantic pas seul of a votary often reached the impressiveness of a grand choral celebration. The "Literary.Digest" printed a review recently of a book whose publishers have figured that in the issue of the "Digest," "the pages devoted to the review will total ten tons of paper (this not for the entire issue, but for the review itself). In other words, the review will use up enough paper to print 20,000 copies of the book." The late fc-ir Rider Haggard confided in "The Days of My Life" that he had named his famous "She" from a rag doll, used by a nurse to terrify his brothers and sisters in their childhood. Here is a nice little problem for the New Psychology.