replying to his query, The Orissers is the first book I published, unless I am to count the blank verse play I wrote when I was young and published a few years later, when I was young enough not to know better, he goes on to explain how The Near and Far is the first book in a trilogy, and discusses the drafts and his attempts to add density to his philosophy, but find this hard to do without heavy sacrifices, 4 sides 8vo, Twyford Lodge, November 25th