THE BOOKMAN'S JOURNAL

New York, New York, U.S.A.

January 1923

(pages 124-125)

BOOKSHOP CATALOGUES.

W. AND G. FOYLE, LTD.

I turned over the pages of the latest catalogue (No. 25) from W. and G. Foyle, Ltd. (121-5, Charing Cross Road, W.C. 2) making a mental note that there here were set out the books of the old brigade without which Charing Cross Road would cease to have its main interest. I went through, as many others will do, the “firsts” of Robert Browning, Chesterton, Aleister Crowley, Davidson, Dobson, and so on through the alphabet; but paused longer over one of W. B. Yeat’s, The Celtic Twilight, quoted at 15s., because appended was the comment:

On the back of the title and on the fly-leaves are some notes in extraordinary calligraphy referring to “things seen in the fire on All Hallowe’en, at the Hotel Cavour, Milan, 1899.”

A note calculated to arouse the imp of inquisitiveness in others than collectors of Yeats. You cannot miss a catalogue with a note like that.