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The Fairy Folk of Dugald Stewart IFalker


Courtesy Doubleday, Page & Co.

DIAPHANON

BOOK COVER DESIGN FOR “AMERICAN LYRICS”
BY DUGALD STEWART WALKER

The fairy folk of dugald
STEWART WALKER
BY JESSIE LEMONT
Impressions and images of the mate-
rial world of to-day display the proportions of the
grandiose,, the gigantic, the colossal, and mark the
progress of the Will to Power. Under the urgence
of this impulse buildings have been erected that
rear their crests to the skies, floating cities
launched that cross the seas, the courses of mighty
waters turned so that oceans have become united,

and monster birds created that soar above the
clouds under man’s command.
These various manifestations of to-day, these
super-achievements, seem conceived by that
Superman who, evoked by the pen of Nietzsche,
rose into modern thought—a symbol of illimitable
potentiality. With the advent of this figure
mighty machinery began to move, and, as its great
wheels revolved and its piston rods cut through
the air, the glint of the rotating circles and the
flash of the great vertical and horizontal bars fired
the imagination of poets, and thus have been

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