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The Extra Day

... The Extra Day. By Algernon Blackwood. (Mactnillan,) A masterpiece of mystic speculation the one consummate master of the supernatural not since the days of Poe the streak of genius a rush, a splendour madness ol dreams strange loveliness a delicious ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things

... her history. Once launched on the literary world, two very different men made their respective appeals to her mind. Of Algernon Blackwood she writes I knew that this man, with the passionless, grave face of an Egyptian priest, understood my soul better than ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Pan's Garden

... Pan's Garden. Algernon Blackwood. /T Macmillan Under this title, Mr. Blackwood, whose story about the Centaur will be vividly remembered by every reader, collects a group, not of stories exactly, but rather expressions of a mystic philosophy. It is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 749 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... By Ethel M. Dell. Fisher Unwin.) The Return of the Soldier. By Rebecca West. (Nisbct.) Karma A Reincarnation Play. By Algernon Blackwood and Violet Pearn. (MacmiUan.) The Harlequinade. By Dion Clayton Calthrop and Granville Barker. (Sidgtvick Jacksoti.) ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1197 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Review

... cinations, did not Miss Royde-Smith's art persuade belief. The Face, with its prefatory acknowledgment of indebtedness to Algernon Blackwood, recalls his own work, especially his power of endowing a symbol with a kind of life of its own, de taching it from ...

Published: Wednesday 08 June 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1172 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Things New; At the Theatres

... nt could not very well be devised. The Starlight Express is a little flight of fancy at the Kingsway Theatre by Mr. Algernon Blackwood and Miss Violet Pearn. A moral tale it is of the way to be happy by getting outside yourself and thinking of others ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1761 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Valedictory

... udley Is this James Joyce, or is it Gertrude Stein Neither of all people in the world, it is Algernon Blackwood To be more accurate, it is Algernon Blackwood's King Grey Parrot, Dudley a unique bird with a most remarkable prose style, rich in expletive ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2676 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger

... to be with out ties they have no obliga tions except to each other and how ultimately unsatis factory that is Mr. Algernon I he Blackwood's Supernatural. studles in the uncanny are too well known to need introduction. Strange Stories is a collection culled ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2918 | Page: 96 | Tags: Review 

GEORGIAN STORIES FOR 1924

... various hands. Among the well- known and trusty performers appear Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Stacey Aumonier, Algernon I Continued overleaf. Continued] Blackwood, Denis Macliail, Aldous Huxley, P. G. Wodehouse, Orlo Williams. These contribute tales now weird, now ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review