PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I LEO'S HILL

CHAPTER II NEVILTON

CHAPTER III OLYMPIAN CONSPIRACY

CHAPTER IV REPRISALS FROM BELOW

CHAPTER V FRANCIS TAXATER

CHAPTER VI THE PARIAHS

CHAPTER VII IDYLLIC PLEASURES

CHAPTER VIII THE MYTHOLOGY OF SACRIFICE

CHAPTER IX THE MYTHOLOGY OF POWER

CHAPTER X THE ORCHARD

CHAPTER XI ART AND NATURE

CHAPTER XII AUBER LAKE

CHAPTER XIII LACRIMA

CHAPTER XIV UNDER-CURRENTS

CHAPTER XV MORTIMER ROMER

CHAPTER XVI HULLAWAY

CHAPTER XVII SAGITTARIUS

CHAPTER XVIII VOICES BY THE WAY

CHAPTER XIX PLANETARY INTERVENTION

CHAPTER XX VOX POPULI

CHAPTER XXI CAESAR'S QUARRY

CHAPTER XXII A ROYAL WATERING-PLACE

CHAPTER XXIII AVE ATQUE VALE!

CHAPTER XXIV THE GRANARY

CHAPTER XXV METAMORPHOSIS

CHAPTER XXVI VARIOUS ENCOUNTERS

CHAPTER XXVII VENNIE SELDOM

CHAPTER XXVIII LODMOOR

CHAPTER XXIX THE GOAT AND BOY

WOOD AND STONE

WOOD AND STONE

A ROMANCE

BY
JOHN COWPER POWYS

1915
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1915
BY G. ARNOLD SHAW

COPYRIGHT IN GREAT BRITAIN
AND COLONIES

DEDICATED

WITH DEVOTED ADMIRATION
TO THE GREATEST POET AND NOVELIST
OF OUR AGE

THOMAS HARDY