CHICAGO HERALD:  “An essayist at once scholarly, human and charming is John Cowper Powys....  Almost every page carries some arresting thought, quaintly appealing phrase, or picture spelling passage.”

REEDY’S MIRROR, St. Louis:  “Powys keeps you wide awake in the reading because he’s thinking and writing from the standpoint of life, not of theory or system.  Powys has a system but it is hardly a system.  It is a sort of surrender to the revelation each writer has to make.”

    KANSAS CITY STAR:  “John Cowper Powys’ essays are wonderfully
    illuminating....  Mr. Powys writes in at least a semblance of
    the Grand Style.”

“Visions and Revisions” contains the following essays:—­

Rabelais       Dickens           Thomas Hardy
Dante          Goethe            Walter Pater
Shakespeare    Matthew Arnold    Dostoievsky
El Greco       Shelley           Edgar Allan Poe
Milton         Keats             Walt Whitman
Charles Lamb   Nietzsche         Conclusion

G. ARNOLD SHAW PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY LECTURERS ASSOCIATION

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL NEW YORK

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SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS

ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS

BY JOHN COWPER POWYS

8vo. about 400 pages.  Half cloth with blue Fabriano paper sides $2.00 net

The Book News Monthly said of “Visions and Revisions”: 

“Not one line in the entire book that is not tense with thought and feeling.”

The author of “Visions and Revisions” says of this new book of essays: 

“In ‘Suspended Judgments’ I have sought to express with more deliberation and in a less spasmodic manner than in ‘Visions,’ the various after-thoughts and reactions both intellectual and sensational which have been produced in me, in recent years, by the re-reading of my favorite writers.  I have tried to capture what might be called the ‘psychic residuum’ of earlier fleeting impressions and I have tried to turn this emotional aftermath into a permanent contribution—­at any rate for those of similar temperament—­to the psychology of literary appreciation.

“To the purely critical essays in this volume I have added a certain number of others dealing with what, in popular parlance, are called ‘general topics,’ but what in reality are always—­in the most extreme sense of that word—­personal to the mind reacting from them.  I have called the book ‘Suspended Judgments’ because while one lives, one grows, and while one grows, one waits and expects.”

SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS CONTAINS THESE ESSAYS: 

THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION IN LITERATURE