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College President making
a sadder perversion inquires
for "Nothing but a Woman".
The title sounds paganish.
Persian. There comes a dread
of heathen fable, and tiger's
eyes for amulets. There is
almost a night-mare im-
pression of being caught in
the inexorable folds of
Vedder's whirls, on the cover,
and we turn the book, expecting
to see the other overpowering
pictures from the Rubaiyat

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