Contents
Chapter I "Hinter die Kirche bluhe die blaue Blume der Zufriedenheit." Meister Eckhart.
Chapter II Of Thaddeus Bourn and his Purposes
Chapter III Of Morgan Map and his Purposes
Chapter IV In which Thaddeus uses the term "Moral Justification"
Chapter V Introducing Hamilton and Saint Mary's Organ
Chapter VI Introducing Gard Windham and the Brotherhood of Consolation
Chapter VII Introducing Moselle and Mavering
Chapter VIII Of Mrs. Mavering, and of the Philosophy of the Individual
Chapter IX Of Estates in Happiness
Chapter X Of Spring in Hamilton Of Thaddeus's Opportunity to be Candid
Chapter XI The Whirlpool. Mr. Paulus's Reminiscences of Women.
Chapter XII Antietam.
Chapter XIII In Which Appears a General of Division, and One of "the Brethren."
Chapter XIV In which Mavering Concludes that Cavalry Officers as a Class Are Eccentric and Deep
Chapter XV Treats of the Distribution of Tracts in the Valley of the Shenandoah.
Chapter XVI Which Discloses one Daddy Joe, and Disposes of an Evangelist
Chapter XVII On the Question of the Exact Location of the
Chapter XVIII In which there is Discovered a Compunction
Chapter XIX In which Windham Drops Out of the Fight and Mavering Remarks on Human Adaptability
Chapter XX Treats of Further Incidents in the House with the White Door
Chapter XXI In Which We Go Down the River and Return
Chapter XXII Of Mavering, Who Disappears Of the Gray Poet Of Morgan, Who Appears Once More
Chapter XXIII The End
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF TWELVE AMERICAN NOVELS PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS DURING 1901, WRITTEN FOR THE MOST PART BY NEW AMERICAN WRITERS, AND DEALING WITH DIFFERENT PHASES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LIFE.
"EASTOVER COURT HOUSE." By Henry Burnham Boone and Kenneth Brown.
"THE SENTIMENTALISTS." By Arthur Stanwood Pier.
"MARTIN BROOK." By Morgan Bates.
"A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES." By Geraldine Anthony.
"DAYS LIKE THESE." By Edward W. Townsend.
"WESTERFELT." By Will N. Harben.
"THE MANAGER OF THE B & A." By Vaughan Kester.
"THE SUPREME SURRENDER." By A. Maurice Low.
"THE STRENGTH OF THE HILLS." By Florence Wilkinson.
"LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER." By Basil King.
"WHEN LOVE IS YOUNG." By Roy Rolfe Gilson.
"THE DEBATABLE LAND." By Arthur Colton.
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"THE
DEBATABLE
LAND"
A Novel
By
Arthur Colton
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New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1901
Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
TO
R.H. LOINES
"For the Debatable Land, being that portion of ground which, lying between two countries, belongeth to neither, does of all regions abound most in disturbance, adventures, even legends, and, as men say, in warlocks and witches. Thus the astute German, Hermantius, significantly calleth the region of youth a debatable land, and seeketh to illustrate time by space."—The Dictionary of Devices.
