You are good in your attitude towards Ransome, resolve to keep it up. I have long had to drop it and to like him largely because he reminds me of my oldest friend, now in Africa there three or four years past. But I like him, and could still like to hear his plans. He ought to have come here to worry me. I could have stood him better because I fear I have a bit of the stupidity patron in me - e.g. I have just set an old friend going in journalism, made him think of it, told him how I had done it, and sent him round Fleet Street and rejoiced when he cackled over his first books to review.
I wish I could read “Demeter“ not as a reviewer and one or two other books I have lately had - e.g. and above all a “period play” called “Borgia” anonymous and published at 3s.6d. by Bullen. It has no arrangement but it has a hundred fine dialogues and you would like some of it if you could pardon a slack Elizabethanism in the cadency the main blank verse.

Bur how shall I know whether a book is good when I have this week reviewed these? -
(1) “De Flagello Myrteo: Thoughts and Fancies in love” - aphorisms, good or pretty all - (Elkin Mathews)
(2) “Borgia”
(3) 3 other plays and an epic
(4) “The Spiritual Life” by Lady Dilke-
(5) “ Confessions by Lord Byron”
(6) “My Garden in the City of Gardens”
and one other book: and I have ahead of me
(1) “ A Mainsail Haul” by John Masefield
(2) “The Scented Garden”.
(3) “The Dog from Clarkson’s”
(4) “Will Warburton” by George Gissing
(5) (illegible) Tragedies
(6) Vase
(7) “Influence of Feeling for Nature on Medieval Poetry “.
(8) “Confessions of Byron” - again
(9) Article for “Academy” on feeling for Nature in 18th century poetry.
Sombrely, I am glad you like “ Polyphemus”
Sombrely, I have noticed “Penthesilia”
But as much of me as there is
Is yours ever
Edward Thomas