STRAWS and PRAYER-BOOKS
Reading edition
BOOKS by MR. CABELL
Biography:
Beyond Life
Figures of Earth
Domnei
Chivalry
Jurgen
The Line of Love
The High Place
Gallantry
The Certain Hour
The Cords of Vanity
From the Hidden Way
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck
The Eagle's Shadow
The Cream of the Jest
Straws and Prayer-Books
Scholia:
The Lineage of Lichfield
Taboo
The Jewel Merchants
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Jurgen and the Law
(Edited by Guy Holt)
STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS
Dizain des Diversions
By
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.... Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age."
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
NEW YORK : : : : : : 1924
Copyright, 1924, by James Branch Cabell
Printed in the United States of America
Third Edition
Published, 1924
To
BALLARD HARTWELL CABELL
is dedicated whatever may be of worth in this volume, or elsewhere in the Biography.