Books: The Raven Himself Is Hoarse

MACBETH (125 pp.)—William Shakespeare, illusfrated by Salvador Dali—Doubleday, Doran ($3.50).

(Scene: A bar in Eastcheap. Enter two Elizabethan book-reviewers, one clapping the other upon the shoulder.) 1st BR. How now, scribbler, what news this day? 2nd BR. Alas! this day indeed; this Doubleday!

1st BR. Speak out, wordster! 2nd BR. This dawn, eleven o'clock, when

I arose, Peering upon the world with

clotted eye, A package lay without my port; 'twas brought By one whom rain nor snow nor sleet can keep From his appointed round. I clipped...

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