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Post by noose on May 6, 2010 14:30:46 GMT
Rich and Cowan Ltd (1933)Frederick Carter 
Richard Middleton - John Gawsworth
Introduction - Lord Alfred Douglas
A DIARY OF YOUTH
Journal of a Clerk
TALES AND FANTASIES
Fritz and Sweet Annette
The Romance of the World
What is Love?
Devona's Cat
Faith
One Summer's Day
The Boy Errant
The Clerk
Summer Time
The Wrong Turning
The Welcome Home
Fate's Solution
The Last Adventure
Little Mistress Mine
The Inheritor
A Hungerford Interlude
A Lost Artist
A POET'S HOLIDAY
The Philosophy of Travel
Little Paris
Impressions
The Philosophy of Tranquillity
The Hope of the Artists
Spring Journalism
French or Flemish?
The Failure of the Crowd
The Newspaper Habit
LITERARY PAPERS
Stevenson and Treasure Island
Stevenson and Lay Morals
J.M Barrie and Peter Pan
Lady Novelists
Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday
Mr Chesterton Considered
Frank Harris and his Glasses
Frank Harris and Shakespeare
The Art of Hilaire Belloc
The Genius of A. E. Houseman
Literature and Burglars
OCCASIONAL PIECES
The Madness of Spring
The Pantomime Man
Bedlam in 1823
The Invalid
The Clerk in Art
The Romance of Drink
An interesting book - part biography, a smattering of dark tales: The Clerk, The Wrong Turning and the astounding The Boy Errant which could be a companion piece to On the Brighton Road - The Inheritor, and A Hungerford Interlude. Journal of a Clerk is Middleton's diary , and it's clear to see his depression which had such a grip on him. Not read his literary stuff, but will be interesting to read his words on Frank Harris, as Lord Alfred Douglas is pretty cutting in his introduction, describing Harris as 'always helped himself with both hands to anything he could get hold of, either in way of cash or credit or ideas, was given to boasting in later years that he had "discovered Richard Middleton"; as a matter of fact it was I that sent him to Harris, who gave him work on Vanity Fair.' A really good book, and furthers the need for a complete works.
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Post by marksamuels on May 6, 2010 22:31:12 GMT
Johnny WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  I'm jealous! What a book! What a find! First I've seen of the contents listings and that Middleton portrait... It's chock-full of stuff I'd like to read. Mark S. |
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Post by noose on May 7, 2010 12:54:39 GMT
Johnny WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm jealous! What a book! What a find! First I've seen of the contents listings and that Middleton portrait... It's chock-full of stuff I'd like to read. Mark S. I parted with £2.50 for this beauty... Anyhoo - music to your ears, there is a tiny Machen reference in Douglas's introduction - here is the first bit of that introduction... Having been asked to write an Introduction to this collection of Miscellanea by the poet Richard Middleton, I hope I may be excused for informing, or reminding, my readers that, as Editor of The Academy in 1907, I was the first to give him recognition. I have been casting back in my mind for recollections of the man himself which, slight as they are, may have that interest which attaches to personal reminiscences of a dead poet. Shortly after I became Editor of The Academy I was invited by a literary society called "The New Bohemians" to attend one of their dinners. I had never heard of these "New Bohemians," but I was young enough in those days to be gratified by the attention, and I attended their dinner, where I met for the first time, among a lot of charming and talented people, Arthur Machen and Richard Middleton, both of whom became contributors to The Academy. Middleton must have been about twenty-four then, and in spit of his black beard, he produced the effect of boyishness and, whenever I saw him at any rate, of exuberant spirits. His moods of deep depression, so often revealed in this book, were never exhibited on the few occasions when we met. He was a witty and whimsical talker and he diffused an atmosphere of gaiety and laughter. I liked him at once, and I am proud of the fact that The Academy accepted for publication several poems and stories by him, among them A Poet's Holiday. I take this opportunity of putting on record the fact that Richard Middleton was writing for me long before Frank Harris ever saw him. I mention this because Harris, who always helped himself with both hands to anything he could get hold of, either in way of cash or credit or ideas, was given to boasting in later years that he had "discovered Richard Middleton"; as a matter of fact it was I that sent him to Harris, who gave him work on Vanity Fair.' |
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Post by marksamuels on May 7, 2010 22:08:57 GMT
Johnny, my man, You do realise I am crying with envy as I read your posts about this Middleton book? £2.50 Fascinating, fascinating, stuff: especially about "the New Bohemians". I tell you what, I'll take it off your hands for a fiver. How's that? Can't say fairer... Mark S. |
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Post by cw67q on May 10, 2010 9:08:09 GMT
Nice find down even to the cover!
- chris
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I'm jealous!