CONTENTS

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Introduction, by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog [vii]
Part One: The Third Sex
I. How This Book Came to Be Written [1]
II. The Place of the Androgyne in the Male Sex Scale [7]
III. Androgynes of Mythology and History [25]
IV. Man Is a Passional, Rather Than a Rational, Being [39]
Part Two: How the Author Came to Be a Female-Impersonator
I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy [53]
II. School Days [63]
III. An Androgyne’s Youth [70]
IV. I Grow into The Fairie Boy [82]
V. The Boy Who Never Grew to Be a Man [89]
Part Three: the Fairie Boy
I. Female-Impersonation [97]
II. A Typical Female-Impersonation Spree [103]
III. The Gambler [114]
IV. A Stuyvesant Square Pick-up [130]
V. Evenings at Paresis Hall [146]
VI. Thoughts Suggested by the “Hermaphroditoi” in General [164]
Part Four: Frank—Eunice
I. Debut as Adult Female-Impersonator [170]
II. The Pug Heaven [175]
III. A University Friendship [178]
IV. The Masked Ball [182]
V. Frank—Eunice’s Indiscretion [191]
Part Five: Angelo—Phyllis
I. Angelo Angevine’s Debut as Public Female-Impersonator [198]
II. Jailed for Wearing Petticoats [209]
III. George Greenwood [214]
Part Six: Newspaper Accounts of Murders of Androgynes
I. Two Murder Mysteries Which, Strangely Alike in Many Ways, Baffled All Efforts to Solve [223]
II. Z Mystery Baffles Inquiry at Every Angle [237]
III. College Student’s Death Is Unexplained [259]
Part Seven: Medical Writers on Androgynism
I. What a New York Official Physician Has to Say about Fairies [262]
II. What One of America’s Foremost Medical Writers Has to Say about Fairies [266]
Part Eight: Androgyne Verse
I. Emotion [271]
II. Recollection [275]
III. Memories [278]
IV. French Doll-Baby [280]
Announcement of The Riddle of the Underworld [283]
Index [286]