321 Pages. Complete and Unabridged.
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Contents
L'Enfant Terrible
An Optimistic Cynic
A Poet Sheep-rancher
An Eaten Cake
Concerning Elbows on the Table
An Autumn Impulse
John-a'-Dreams
The Fountain of Salmacis
Two Siegfrieds
A Door Ajar
At Time of Death
The Curse of Babel
The Fourth Dimension
The Ant and the Lark
The Doppelganger
"A Young Man's Fancy"
An Arabian Looking-glass
The Cry of the Women
The Beauty of Cruelty
The Duke of Wellington's Trees
The Boy with the Goose
A God Indeed
A Question of Skulls
The Modern Woman and Marriage
The Ideal Husband
A New Law of Health
"Dead, Dead, Dead''
Verbal Magic
Hamlet
Ghosts
Amateur Saints
The Zeitgeist
The Abdication of Man
Life
Portable Property
Are American Parents Selfish?
A Question of Heredity
The Little Dumb Brother
Fever Dreams
A Misunderstood Moralist
The Pleasures of Pessimism
Moral Pauperism
On a Certain Lack of Humour in Frenchmen
The Value of a Soul
A Grateful Spaniard
Bores
Emotions and Oxydization
Abelard to Heloise
Heloise to Abelard
Yumei Mujitsu
The Real Thing
"Oh, Eloquent, Just, and Mighty Death"
"Philistia, be Thou Glad of Me"
"Oh King, Live Forever!"
The Little Room
Aftermath