← Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. 🔊
← The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. 🔊
← Rothenstein objected that absence of title might be bad for the sale of a book. 🔊
← "Yes; things of this kind I read here," he answered, indicating the title of his book—"The Poems of Shelley." 🔊
← "And are they to be published without a title?" 🔊
← "No. I found a title at last. But I sha'n't tell you what it is," as though I had been so impertinent as to inquire. 🔊
← This little place—Restaurant du Vingtième Siècle, to give it its full title—had been discovered in '96 by the poets and prosaists, but had now been more or less abandoned in favor of some later find. 🔊