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**With owner signature of travel guide writer, Findlay Muirhead (1860-1935) ** Hard cover, in olive green buckram with titles in gilt, on laid paper, edges untrimmed, 278 pp. A collection of Galsworthy's essays reprinted from various publications, including Scribner's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, and others. A 1915 review of the author's work by Louise Collier Wilcox calls Galsworthy " the great prose impressionist of our generation, " and calls a handful of the essays herein exquisite. (NAR, Dec. '15, Vol. 202, No. 721, p. 891.) He would, in 1932, earn the Nobel prize in Literature. A small excerpt of description from the title essay, which takes place in Italy: "If the air was void of sound, it was full of scent that delicious and enlivening perfume of mingled gum, and herb, and sweet wood being burned somewhere a long way off; and a silky, golden warmth slanted on to us through the olives and umbrella pines. Large wine-red violets were growing near. On such a cliff might Theocritus have lain, spinning his songs; on that divine sea Odysseus should have passed. And we felt that presently the goat-god must put his head forth from behind a rock. " James Galsworthy was a well-travelled man, having spent several years post-grad on the road to far flung outposts such as Russia, the Fiji Islands, South Africa , the US and Canada. It was on these travels that he met and was befriended by Joseph Conrad.** The original owner of this book, was the Scotsman Findlay Muirhead (1860-1935.) His signature and the date 1913 appear on the ffep. Findlay and his brother James Muirhead were the English language editors of the Baedeker series of travel guides. They would go on to publish the Blue Travel Guides under the aegis of the Muirhead Guidebooks Ltd. Condition: Very Good, or better. Top edge dusty. The rest shows very little wear. There are remains of a few spots on top board (but only in the right light).
Ref: ESSY 8336
$100.00