"T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is recalled by the casual allusions to classical lore, the devilishly clever garbling of familiar quotations and the total effect of dissolution. Mr. Huxley has the American poet's flair for topical wit of a distinctly metropolitan flavor. It is a brilliant, entertaining satire, with a faint suggestion of 'ungestured sadness.'" --New York Times "There are passages in Antic Hay of a pure and rhythmic beauty: pas­ sages so fine, so just, that they move one like good music." --Saturday Review "Astonishing.

A first-rate performance." --Satyricon "Huxley is the creator-god of a beautiful new world which is wholly and peculiarly his own and which he peoples with antic folk whose adventures, always keenly intelligent and sparkling with wit, are elo­quently and continually amusing." --Detroit News "Antic Hay has the literary delights of the intelligence questionnaire, characters who don't talk in conversations but in charades, with satire japing sophistication as well as the more obvious targets, engaging naughtiness narrated for its own sake, rising and falling in broad com­ edy and in episodes deliciously strange and tender." --New Republic "This new intensity of emotion gives a new savour to the wit which is, after all, what we read Mr. Huxley for." --New Statesman.