Excerpt from The Playgoer and Society, Vol. 4: Illustrated With Which Is Incorporated "the Thratre"; A Monthly Magazine of the Drama, Fashion, and Society All around could be seen the tree-tops, the blue sky peeping through the branches, while the incessant twitter of the birds carried the mind above the earth to their own domains. The retreat was alone with Nature. Here in the warm summer afternoons Lady Patricia was wont to sit, robed in a dress of shimmering gold, reading poetry, sighing to the clouds, communing with Nature. In the evenings she would recline in her chair, listen to the nightingales, and quote Swinburne to the stars, while the Chinese lanterns hanging from the branches went out_ as regularly as Chinese lanterns do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

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