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By William Saphier — February 01, 1921
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 war was at its fiercest, Osman Pasha was getting desperate, and the besieging armies needed food. A…
By John McClure — February 01, 1921
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 life's pastime, I turn my hand to rhyme. Poets be damn'd! if by that word be meant Lean, shaggy…
By The Editors — February 01, 1921
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 of normalcy. Everyone says so; the very billboards which announce the shrinking cost of vestments…
By Louis Gilmore — February 01, 1921
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 sacramentel." — Balzac. Persons: Shabiyah, The Gazelle. Kasim, The Philosopher. Faroun, The Husband. Scene…
By Stephen Huguenot — February 01, 1921
"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, and, with the aid of a hairpin, instantly opened it. Breathlessly, she tiptoed in... The door gave…
By Lola Ridge — February 01, 1921
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 twist alive and writhe up off the plain Like threads of tortured silver..... But the guards— Monstrous…
By Stephen Ta Van — February 01, 1921
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 atmosphere heavy with the dignity of viands. My mother set what was called, in the aristocratic New England…
By The Editors — February 01, 1921
Passes, March 4th beyond public applause and scorn, from out the cartoonist's brain and politician's head, one Woodrow Wilson, erstwhile Coiner of Catchwords, moral White Hope of the World and President of these United States of America. And so as he…
By The Editors — February 01, 1921
Bravado, bluster, brass, swagger, assurance, front, nerve, dash, confidence, gesture, audacity — term it what you will, this "something" is the trick that puts it over on the herd. Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Bombastes Furioso…
By Silas Brent — January 01, 1921
"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 have the conceit of the ages and the ignorance of a man masquerading — it was this same Caucasian…
By James Branch Cabell — January 01, 1921
Letter dated November 1920 Editors of The Double Dealer. Gentlemen: Your program, as announced, is ambitious and mellifluous and generally attractive, with perhaps the minor fault of being a trifle beyond the scope of human ability. But that, as…
By Buffington Tutt — January 01, 1921
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. I shall fall short of the capitalist's swollen splendor, but good jobs of one kind and another…
By The Editors — January 01, 1921
HONESTY AND THE DOUBLE DEALER In November 1693, Master William of Congreve's comedy, "The Double Dealer," made its debut before a crowded assembly room of the beaux and belles of Restoration London, the beauty and wit of the court of William III…
By John McClure — January 01, 1921
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 Thomas he was born of woman, Gay Thomas was a son of man, There was four swinging suns in heaven When…
By Benjamin De Casseres — January 01, 1921
"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 feet. The chief glared at me, hid his income tax blank in a drawer, and said mildly: "Benson, go get…
By The Editors — January 01, 1921
We do not think that Mr. James Branch Cabell of Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, needs any introduction to the country at large, despite the belated and crotchety presentation of a Mr. Gunther in the November Bookman, but we do think that our…
By Anthony Galt — January 01, 1921
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 attempt to lay bare the whole show and prompt us to apologize for our intrusion into polite society…
By John McClure — January 01, 1921
[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 and vain cockatoos. Saint Aristippus and Saint Laughing Tom, Prithee now come, We shall incant a spell…
By The Editors — January 01, 1921
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA Hergesheimer, Joseph: San Cristóbal de la Habana. N.Y., Knopf, 1920. Mr. Hergesheimer, through his long years of literary apprenticeship and in his present period of remarkable popular success, has followed constantly the…
By Vincent Starrett — January 01, 1921
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 correspondent at the capital. Chicago has been the cradle of many movements, since the day the now famous…
By Buffington Tutt — January 01, 1921
[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 was a warrior in the Roman age And with some Caesar swung a doughty sword. By lion-hearted Richard…
By Olive Boullemet — January 01, 1921
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 pile and the bad in another, and the pile of the bad was the larger. "Thinkest thou the gods care…
By Louis Gilmore — January 01, 1921
I sought a meaning For your smile As of Leonardo's Lady. Could it have meant I was a fool?
By Lafcadio Hearn — January 01, 1921
*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 Orleans was contributed by Lafcadio Hearn some thirty-five years ago to the Southern Bivouac of…