THE QUEST FOR CORVO — A. J. A. Symons—Macmillan ($2.50).
Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo") belongs with those eccentrics of literature whose books are caviar to the general. He experimented with words of his own concoction long before Joyce. His tales bear the stamp of strange originality. His life was that of a would-be priest, painter, novelist, historian, outcast, ascetic, sensualist, madman.
Author Symons calls his book "An Experiment in Biography." His scheme has been to take readers along with him in his...
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