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A THOUSAND HEAD OF CATTLE

My grandfather drove a thousand head of cattle from northern Maldova, through the plains of Valachia, across the Danube to the front at Plevna. The…

As men for pastime may direct their wit As they see fit And thus turn tailor or green-groceryman For their life's span— As men turn tailor for their…

Since the voters of this country have almost by acclamation elected Tweedledee in default of Tweedledum, we may look forward with assurance to a rule…

A Play in One Act. "........ et le comble de la finesse était de se surprende l'un ou l'autre à recevoir une bagatelle sans prononcer le mot…

"Remember!" he repeated, menacingly. "All but the room with the green door!" With that, he left her. She went at once to the room with the green door…

A foam of lightning breaks on the barred pane. He shudders: voltage......stretches you apart As it does bleeding roots, and trunks that start And…

I can remember sitting stiffly, a very little boy, at the polished mahogany board in the high ancestral dining-room in Ware, surrounded by an…

Passes, March 4th beyond public applause and scorn, from out the cartoonist's brain and politician's head, one Woodrow Wilson, erstwhile Coiner of…

Bravado, bluster, brass, swagger, assurance, front, nerve, dash, confidence, gesture, audacity — term it what you will, this "something" is the trick…

"What can one do with such people," asked an intelligent Chinaman twenty years ago of the American democracy, "what can one do with such people, who…

Letter dated November 1920 Editors of The Double Dealer. Gentlemen: Your program, as announced, is ambitious and mellifluous and generally attractive…

I have given a hostage to Fortune, and am on my way to "success." Barring unreasonable disaster, it is not likely that I shall ever again go penniless…

HONESTY AND THE DOUBLE DEALER In November 1693, Master William of Congreve's comedy, "The Double Dealer," made its debut before a crowded assembly…

There was four swinging suns in heaven, There was four rolling seas on earth, The stars was seventy and seven Before Gay Thomas came to birth. Gay…

"The chief wants to see you." It was the office boy of my Sunday editor who spoke. I had a standing start, but I beat him back to the desk by three…

We do not think that Mr. James Branch Cabell of Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, needs any introduction to the country at large, despite the…

Our friends, the ladies, have invariably been a source of wonder, but in this abstruse era they seem to have shattered previous records by a brazen…

[Listed in the table of contents under the pen name "Ta Van"] Bring with ye gizzards of the Laughing Goose And bring the juice Of monkeys, penguins…

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA Hergesheimer, Joseph: San Cristóbal de la Habana. N.Y., Knopf, 1920. Mr. Hergesheimer, through his long years of literary…

Since H. L. Mencken has called Chicago "the literary capital of the United States," it is proper for a progressive literary journal to support a…

[Attributed to "Stephen" in the table of contents; the poem appears on page 22 signed "Buffington Tutt," closing the "Business a la Mode" section.] I…

Man and woman were created to dwell together — from time to time. A man sat upon a rock and pulled his life to pieces. The good of it he put in one…

I sought a meaning For your smile As of Leonardo's Lady. Could it have meant I was a fool?

THE LAST OF THE NEW ORLEANS FENCING MASTERS

*Denotes 2019 editors. *The note below was provided as introduction to the story's printing in 1921: A unique chapter in the romantic history of New…