JAMES BRANCH CABELL

"Criticism, whatever may be its

pretensions, never does more than to

define the impression which is made upon

it at a certain moment by a work wherein

the writer himself noted the impression

of the world which he received at a

certain hour."

NEW YORK

ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY

1916

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