A Book Without a Title

by George Jean Nathan

Transcriber's note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed, and they are indicated with a [mouse-hover] and listed at the [end of this book]. All other inconsistencies are as in the original.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Another Book on the Theater
Europe After 8.15 (in collaboration
with H. L. Mencken)
Bottoms Up
Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents
In Preparation:
The Democratic Theatre
I Love You: A Reminiscence

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A
BOOK WITHOUT
A TITLE

BY
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK NINETEEN EIGHTEEN

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COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY

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Titles of books: Decoys to catch purchasers—Chatfield.

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À
Mademoiselle Ex

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CONTENTS

I	The Atheist	[7]
II	Allies	[8]
III	Viewpoint	[9]
IV	The Mistake	[10]
V	Tempora Mutantur	[11]
VI	Love	[12]
VII	Flippancy	[13]
VIII	The Gift	[14]
IX	Sic Transit—	[15]
X	The Intruder	[16]
XI	Memory	[17]
XII	Maxim	[18]
XIII	The Greater Love	[19]
XIV	The Public Taste	[20]
XV	The Future	[21]
XVI	Sic Passim	[22]
XVII	The Severer Sentence	[23]
XVIII	Rache	[24]
XIX	Sic Semper Tyrannis	[25]
XX	Respect	[26]
XXI	Temperament	[27]
XXII	[Immortality]	[28]
XXIII	Inspiration	[29]
XXIV	Recipé	[30]
XXV	Transmigration	[31]
XXVI	The Savant	[32]
XXVII	Companion	[33]
XXVIII	Good Fairy	[34]
XXIX	The External Feminine	[35]
XXX	Fraternité	[36]
XXXI	Reputation	[37]
XXXII	The Lariat	[38]
XXXIII	The Analyst	[39]
XXXIV	Couplet	[40]
XXXV	The Philosopher	[41]
XXXVI	Rosemary	[42]
XXXVII	Strategy	[43]
XXXVIII	A Work of Art	[44]
XXXIX	Offspring	[45]
XL	V. C.	[46]
XLI	But—	[47]
XLII	Conjecture	[48]
XLIII	The Judgment of Solomon	[49]
XLIV	The Supernatural	[50]
XLV	Curiosity	[51]
XLVI	The Mirror	[52]
XLVII	Patria	[53]
XLVIII	The Lover	[54]
XLIX	The Public	[55]
L	[The Scholar]	[56]
LI	[Grotesquerie]	[57]
LII	Contretemps	[58]
LIII	Dramatic Criticism	[59]
LIV	Nepenthe	[60]
LV	Ecce Homo	[61]
LVI	The Actor	[62]
LVII	Vade Mecum	[63]
LVIII	Butterflies	[64]
LIX	Boomerang	[65]
LX	Advice	[66]
LXI	Pastel	[67]
LXII	Imitations	[68]
LXIII	The Coquette	[69]
LXIV	Moonlight	[70]
LXV	The Eternal Masculine	[71]
LXVI	Satire	[72]
LXVII	Glory	[73]
LXVIII	Romance	[74]
LXIX	The Spider and the Fly	[75]
LXX	Veritas	[76]
LXXI	The Reformer	[78]
LXXII	Fatalism	[79]
LXXIII	Technique	[80]
LXXIV	Finis	[81]

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