The triumph of the nut, and other parodies

by Christopher Ward

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THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT
AND OTHER PARODIES

BY

CHRISTOPHER WARD

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1923

Copyright, 1923,

By

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

First Printing, September, 1923

Second Printing, November, 1923

Printed in the United States of America

TO

Sherwood Anderson,

Margaret Deland,

Gertrude Atherton,

Edith Wharton,

Mary Roberts Rinehart,

Sinclair Lewis,

Joseph Hergesheimer,

Rebecca West,

Jeffrey Farnol,

Willa Cather,

F. Scott Fitzgerald,

William J. Locke,

Rafael Sabatini,

A. S. M. Hutchinson,

Kathleen Norris,

Zane Grey,

T. S. Eliot

Without whose assistance

it could never have been written,

This Book is

Timidly Dedicated.

Acknowledgment is gratefully made to The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post for permission to reprint several of these parodies, which appeared in its columns, often under different titles and sometimes in briefer versions.