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James Branch Cabell. The Cream of the Jest
The Cream of the Jest
Table of Contents
I
Introduces the Ageless Woman
II
Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
III
Of the Double-Dealer’s Traffic With a Knave
IV
How the Double-Dealer Was of Two Minds
V
Treats of Maugis D’Aigremont’s Pottage
VI
Journeys End: With the Customary Unmasking
I
Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
II
Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
III
Of Idle Speculations in a Library
IV
How There Was a Light in the Fog
V
Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix
VI
Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
VII
Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
VIII
Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
I
They Come to a High Place
II
Of the Sigil and One Use of It
III
Treats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
IV
Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
V
Of Divers Fleshly Riddles
VI
In Pursuit of a Whisper
VII
Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
I
Economic Considerations of Piety
II
Deals With Pen Scratches
III
By-Products of Rational Endeavor
IV
“Epper Si Muove”
V
Evolution of a Vestryman
I
Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
II
Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
III
Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall
IV
Horvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-le-Vicomte
V
Horvendile to Ettarre: In the Conciergerie
VI
Of One Enigma that Threatened to Prove Allegorical
VII
Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
I
Sundry Disclosures of the Press
II
Considerations Toward Sunset
III
One Way of Elusion
IV
Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
V
Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
