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BURIED CAESARS

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BURIED CAESARS

Essays in Literary
Appreciation


BY
VINCENT STARRETT


I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled.

—Edward FitzGerald


Essay Index Reprint Series


BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, INC.
FREEPORT, NEW YORK

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First Published 1923
Reprinted 1968


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG NUMBER:
68-16977

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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To the Shining Memory
of Another Buried Caesar

ROBERT POLK STARRETT

My Father
September 19, 1863
November 24, 1918

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CONTENTS

I.
A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
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 1
(1)
Of Sin
(2)
Of Ecstasy
(3)
Of Arthur Machen
II.
Ambrose Bierce
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 32
(1)
The Man
(2)
The Master
(3)
The Mystery
III.
Stephen Crane: a Wonderful Boy
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 73
IV.
The Passing of James Branch Cabell
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 87
V.
"Michael Wood" and the "Incommunicable"
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 105
VI.
The Art of W. C. Morrow
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 118
VII.
Arthur Cosslett Smith
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 126
VIII.
Two Suicides
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 133
 
Hubert Crackanthorpe
 
Richard Middleton
IX.
The Irritating Mr. Burgess
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 146
X.
Opie Read and the Great American Novel
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 153
XI.
A Bookman of the Old School
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 163
 
Walter Blackburn Harte
XII.
Haldane Macfall, Novelist
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 170
XIII.
Robert Neilson Stephens and the Costume Novel
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 179
XIV.
Y. E. A. and a Bottle of Rum
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 189
XV.
"Black Beauty" and its Author
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 205
XVI.
"Home is the Sailor—"
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 224
 
In Memoriam David Ker
XVII.
"Great-Heart is Dead!"
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 239
 
In Memoriam William Marion Reedy


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