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.