CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
1.THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT[1]
or Too Many Marriages.
2.THE FLAME THAT FAILED[10]
Réchaufféd from “The Vehement Flame.”
3.BLACKER OXEN[20]
by Gertrude Otherton.
4.GLIMPSING THE MOON[35]
With an obeisance to Edith Wharton.
5.THE VANISHING POINT[47]
With apologies to “The Breaking Point.”
6.BABBITT[59]
On Sinclair Lewis.
7.JOSEPH AND THE BRIGHT SHAWL[70]
8.THE JUDGE[79]
or Turning the Tea Tables.
Illustrating the influence of Henry James upon an otherwise perfectly good novelist, Rebecca West.
9.THE PERILS OF PEREGRINE[84]
à la Jeffrey Farnol.
10.ONE OF HERS[94]
Long after Willa Cather.
11.PARADISE BE DAMNED![105]
by F. Scott Fitzjazzer.
12.THE TRIALS OF TRIONA[119]
In Locke Step.
13.CAPTAIN BLOODLESS[128]
an Episode—
Far from Sabatini.
14.SOME FREEDOM![135]
“With a great price ($2.00) obtained I This Freedom!”
15.CERTAIN PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE[147]
Not by Kathleen Norris.
16.THE BLUNDERER OF THE WASTELAND[157]
by Jane Grey.
17.THE DRY LAND[170]
Another kind of “Waste Land” inspired by T. S. Eliot.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT
or
TOO MANY MARRIAGES