July 10, 1916.


CONTENTS


[ Preface ]


[ MEN, WOMEN AND GHOSTS ]


[ FIGURINES IN OLD SAXE ]

[ Patterns ]

[ Pickthorn Manor ]

[ The Cremona Violin ]

[ The Cross-Roads ]

[ A Roxbury Garden ]

[ 1777 ]


[ BRONZE TABLETS ]

[ The Fruit Shop ]

[ Malmaison ]

[ The Hammers ]


[ Two Travellers in the Place Vendome ]


[ WAR PICTURES ]

[ The Allies ]

[ The Bombardment ]

[ Lead Soldiers ]

[ The Painter on Silk ]

[ A Ballad of Footmen ]


[ THE OVERGROWN PASTURE ]

[ Reaping ]

[ Off the Turnpike ]

[ The Grocery ]

[ Number 3 on the Docket ]


[ CLOCKS TICK A CENTURY ]

[ Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening ]

[ The Paper Windmill ]

[ The Red Lacquer Music-Stand ]

[ Spring Day ]

[ The Dinner-Party ]

[ Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String Quartet ]

[ Towns in Colour ]


[ Some Books by Amy Lowell ]


The two sea songs quoted in "The Hammers" are taken from

'Songs: Naval and Nautical, of the late Charles Dibdin', London, John Murray, 1841. The "Hanging Johnny" refrain, in "The Cremona Violin", is borrowed from the old, well-known chanty of that name.