SOURCE: "The Immortals and Mr. Powys," in The North American Review, Vol. CCIV, September, 1916, pp. 457-60.

In the following review, Gilman discusses some of Powys's surprising choices for inclusion in his One Hundred Best Books.

As soon as we encountered Mr. John Cowper Powys's One Hundred Best Books, With a Commentary and An Essay on Books and Reading, we proceeded to follow the habit of Emerson (or was it Lamb or Hazlitt!—we have looked it up repeatedly, but we always forget). That is to say, coming upon a new book, we turned away and read an old one; but in this case, the old one was also by Mr. John Cowper Powys. It was his share of a volume called Confessions of Two Brothers, and our hope was that we should find there some information as to the equipment of this adventurous and greatly-daring author. We found...