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The Dance of Life
19237960Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1923. Second impression. 8vo 377pp. Warm gift inscription to Blanche DeVries on the front fly. Modern Indian binding of soft red leather tooled in gilt with brown spine label and gilt lettering speckled page edges marbled endpapers. Few pencil annotations and marginal markings presumably by DeVries. Near fine copy in attractive binding housed in a cloth covered slipcase. <br /> <br /> Pioneering woman Yoga guru Blanche DeVries' copy of Ellis's popular philosophical work on understanding ourselves and the world by perceiving life as a dance. This copy bears a warm gift inscription on the front fly:<br /> <br /> "To DeVries - a dancer of Life of Time Strength Imagination and Grace - in the Theater of Karma. In appreciation Hawley." <br /> <br /> From our research it seems Hawley was the lodge name of a Mrs. Loring Andrews a prominent woman teacher in Bernard's Tantric Order.<br /> <br /> <br /> Ellis's philosophy was quite influential on DeVries as in 1919 she opened a school in New York which combined Yoga with sensual dance known as a Gymnosophy Institute. Gymnosophy combined nudity with meditation dance and Eastern philosophy DeVries' studio being a pioneer institution in the movement. A few years later Ellis would write the introduction to another pioneering work in the young movement Maruice Parmelee's The New Gymnosophy which was clearly inspired by Ellis and his ideas outlined in The Dance of Life. <br /> <br /> An interesting copy with ties to multiple philosophical and cultural movements of the early 20th century. . Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
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