ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
NEW YORK: 1923

Copyright, 1923, by
James Branch Cabell

Printed in the
United States of America

This First Edition of THE
HIGH PLACE is limited to
two thousand numbered copies,
of which this is
Copy Number 1825

Published, 1923

To
Robert Gamble Cabell III
this book, where so much more is due.

Contents

[PART ONE]
THE END OF LONG WANTING
CHAPTERPAGE
[I]The Child Errant3
[II]Sayings about Puysange10
[III]Widowers Seek Consolation24
[IV]Economics of an Old Race36
[V]Friendly Advice of Janicot42
[VI]Philosophy of the Lower Class53
[VII]Adjustments of the Resurrected64
[VIII]At the Top of the World74
[IX]Misgivings of a Beginning Saint80
[X]Who Feasted at Brunbelois89
[PART TWO]
THE END OF LIGHT WINNING
[XI]Problems of Beauty97
[XII]Niceties of Fratricide114
[XIII]Débonnaire123
[XIV]Gods in Decrepitude141
[XV]Dubieties of the Master148
[XVI]Some Victims of Flamberge159
[XVII]The Armory of Antan166
[XVIII]Problems of Holiness178
[XIX]Locked Gates189
[XX]Smoke Reveals Fire204
[PART THREE]
THE END OF LEAN WISDOM
[XXI]Of Melior Married219
[XXII]The Wives of Florian225
[XXIII]The Collyn in the Pot237
[XXIV]Marie-Claire246
[XXV]The Gander That Sang256
[XXVI]Husband and Wife263
[XXVII]The Forethought of Hoprig275
[XXVIII]Highly Ambiguous282
[XXIX]The Wonder Words292
[XXX]The Errant Child304