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VV2-gogarty-twosongs

XML   PDF Two Songs                                              I             MY Love is dark, but she is fair;                As dark as damask roses are,             As dark as woodland lake-water,                 Which…

VV2-french-painter

XML   PDF A Painter of a New Day                                                       I IT might not unreasonably be supposed that imaginative art would have been crushed under the…

VV2-farr-time

XML   PDF The Mystery of Time                                               Characters:                                   PAST.            PRESENT.            FUTURE THE PRESENT is seated on a throne a man in the prime of life, his eyes…

VV2-e-shifting

XML   PDF Scene-Shifting     I HOLD that a man’s work should take colour from his surround- ings, so writing as I do from the painting…

VV2-creswick-confidences

XML   PDF A Game of Confidences     “OH, there you are, Paul! How do you do? I’m so glad to see you again.” Mrs Vibart…

VV2-coke-atom

XML   PDF The Wayward Atom                                              A TALE OF EVOLUTION IN the days when all was Chaos, before ever principalities existed or any Universal Peace…

VV2-bottomley-songs

XML   PDF Old Songs                                           I.—FAIR ROSAMUND     HOW did you get in?” said Fair Rosamund indifferently. Queen Eleanor held up the skein of silk, with…

VV2-advertisements

XML   PDF ADVERTISEMENTS JOHN BAILLIE’S PUBLICATIONS         THE Dream Garden A Children’s AnnualFull cloth, 5s. net.         ❧ EDITED by NETTA SYRETT Cover designed by NELLIE…

VV1-title-page

XML   PDF TITLE PAGE     THE VENTURE        An Annual of Art and Literature         Edited by         LAURENCE HOUSMAN AND         W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.         LONDON        AT JOHN BAILLIE’S         1, PRINCES…