• CHAPTER PAGE

• Death: a Philosophical Discussion 11
• From the Programme of a Concert 27
• The Wedding: a Stage Direction 51
• The Visionary 71
• The Artist: a Drama Without Words 83
• Seeing the World 105
• From the Memoirs of the Devil 135
• Litanies for the Overlooked 149
• Asepsis: a Deduction in Scherzo Form 159
• Tales of the Moral and Pathological 183
• The Jazz Webster 201
• The Old Subject 213
• Panoramas of People 223
• Homeopathics 231
• Vers Libre 237

The present edition includes some epigrams from “A Little Book in C Major,” now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole contents of the book appeared originally in The Smart Set. The references to a Europe not yet devastated by war and an America not yet polluted by Prohibition show that some of the pieces first saw print in far better days than these.

H. L. M.

February 1, 1920.