The triumph of the nut, and other parodies

by Christopher Ward

Kathleen Norris,

Zane Grey,

T. S. Eliot

Without whose assistance

it could never have been written,

This Book is

Timidly Dedicated.

Acknowledgment is gratefully made to The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post for permission to reprint several of these parodies, which appeared in its columns, often under different titles and sometimes in briefer versions.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
1.	THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT	[1]
	or Too Many Marriages.
2.	THE FLAME THAT FAILED	[10]
	Réchaufféd from “The Vehement Flame.”
3.	BLACKER OXEN	[20]
	by Gertrude Otherton.
4.	GLIMPSING THE MOON	[35]
	With an obeisance to Edith Wharton.
5.	THE VANISHING POINT	[47]
	With apologies to “The Breaking Point.”
6.	BABBITT	[59]
	On Sinclair Lewis.
7.	JOSEPH AND THE BRIGHT SHAWL	[70]
8.	THE JUDGE	[79]
	or Turning the Tea Tables.
	Illustrating the influence of Henry James upon an otherwise perfectly good novelist, Rebecca West.
9.	THE PERILS OF PEREGRINE	[84]
	à la Jeffrey Farnol.
10.	ONE OF HERS	[94]
	Long after Willa Cather.
11.	PARADISE BE DAMNED!	[105]
	by F. Scott Fitzjazzer.
12.	THE TRIALS OF TRIONA	[119]
	In Locke Step.
13.	CAPTAIN BLOODLESS	[128]
	an Episode—
	Far from Sabatini.
14.	SOME FREEDOM!	[135]
	“With a great price ($2.00) obtained I This Freedom!”
15.	CERTAIN PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE	[147]
	Not by Kathleen Norris.
16.	THE BLUNDERER OF THE WASTELAND	[157]
	by Jane Grey.
17.	THE DRY LAND	[170]
	Another kind of “Waste Land” inspired by T. S. Eliot.