SOURCE: "Mr. Machen Alchemizes in Print," in The New York Times Book Review, August 10, 1924, p. 11.

In the following review, the commentator emphasizes the singular nature of Ornaments in Jade, contending that the reader "with a mind receptive and swept bare of all previously conceived notions of what a book should be, and how one ought to write, will find the subtleties and the refinements of Machen 's alchemy have a meaning. "

It will be recalled that Arthur Machen is one of England's recent literary discoveries, although the bulk of Mr. Machend work was done during the last decade of the preceding century. And we say "discoveries" advisedly. It would have been possible to say re-discoveries, but it would not have been accurate. At the time Mr. Machen was at the height of his literary endeavors he was known to but very few. England as a whole, and likewise...