DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH, Ph.D.

LECTURER IN ENGLISH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN MODERN ENGLISH FICTION, FUGITIVE VERSES, FROM A SOUTHERN PORCH, ETC.
COMPILER OF HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press


1921

Printed in the United States of America


To
ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D.
Professor of English, Columbia University
who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural