THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME

BY

WAYLAND WELLS WILLIAMS

WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
J. HENRY

"And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges."—Twelfth Night.

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1916, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company


All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages.

CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
[I]Unwritten Papers1
[II]Aunts9
[III]Not Colonial; Georgian19
[IV]Puppy Dogs, and a Psychological Fact28
[V]Babes in the Wood38
[VI]Arcadia and Yankeedom55
[VII]Omne Ignotum69
[VIII]Livy and Victor Hugo77
[IX]A Long Cheer for Wimbourne88
[X]Rumblings101
[XI]Aunt Selina's Beaux Yeux112
[XII]An Act of God121
[XIII]Sardou133
[XIV]Un-Anglo-Saxon141
[XV]Chiefly Cardiac148
[XVI]The Saddest Tale160
PART II
[I]Can Love Be Controlled by Advice?171
[II]Congreve184
[III]Not Triassic, Certainly, but Nearly as Old200
[IV]Wild Horses and Champagne213
[V]A Schöne Seele on Pisgah224
[VI]A Long Chapter. But Then, Love Is Long233
[VII]A Very Short Chapter, in One Sense252
[VIII]One Thing and Another268
[IX]Labyrinths280
[X]Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lammle299
[XI]Hesitancies and Tears312
[XII]A Rod of Iron326
[XIII]Red Flame343
[XIV]A Potter's Vessel362
[XV]The Tide Turns368
[XVI]Reinstatement of a Schöne Seele376