Copyright, 1916, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company


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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

THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME


PART I