The Cream of the Jest

Contents

Preface

BOOK FIRST

I – Introduces the Ageless Woman

II – Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country

III – Of the Double-Dealer's Traffic with a Knave

IV – How the Double-Dealer was of Two Minds

V – Treats of Maugis D'Aigremont's Pottage

VI – Jouneys End: With the Customary Unmasking

BOOK SECOND

I – Of a Triple Found in Twilight

II – Beyone Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende

III – Of Idle Speculations in a Library

IV – How There was a Light in the Fog

V – Of Publishing: With an Unlikely Appendix

VI – Suggesting Themes of universal Appeal

VII – Peculiar Conduct of a Personage

VIII – Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark

BOOK THIRD

I – They Come to a High Place

II – Of the Sigil and One Use of It

III – Trreats of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons

IV – Local Laws of Nephelococcygia

V – Of Divers Fleshly Riddles

VI – In Pursuit of a Whisper

VII – Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably

BOOK FOURTH

I – Economic considerations of Piety

II – Deals With Pen Scratches

III – By-Products of Rational endeavor

IV – "Epper Si Muove"

V – Evolution of a Vestryman

BOOK FIFTH

I – Of Poetic Love: treated with Poetic Inefficiency

II – Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times

III – Horvendile to Ettarre: At Whitehall

IV – HOrvendile to Ettarre: At Vaux-Le-Vicomte

V – Horvendile to Ettarre: Is the Conciergerie

VI – Of One Enigma That Threatened to Prove allegorical

VII – Treats of Witches, Mixed Driks, and the Weather

BOOK SIXTH

I – Sundry Disclosures of the Press

II – Considerations Toward Sunset

III – One Way of Elusion

IV – Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont

V – Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain