CONTENTS

Introduction,
by Harold Ward

Pallation of the Gambit
Introduces the Ageless Woman
Wherein a Clerk Appraises a Fair Country
Of the Double-Dealer's Traffic with a Knave
How the Double-Dealer was of two Minds
Treats of Maugis d'Aigremont's Pottage
Journey's End: with the Customary Unmasking
BOOK TWO
Of a Trifle Found in Twilight
Beyond Use and Wont Fares the Road to Storisende
Of Idle Speculations in a Library
How There was a Light in the Fog
Of Publishing: with an Unlikely Appendix
Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
Peculiar Conduct of a Personage
Of Vain Regret and Wonder in the Dark
BOOK THREE
They Come to a High Place
Of the Sigil and One Use of It
Treat of a Prelate and, in Part, of Pigeons
Local Laws of Nephelococcygia
Of Divers Fleshy Riddles
In Pursuit of a Whisper
Of Truisms: Treated Reasonably
BOOK FOUR
Economic Considerations of Piety
Deals with Pen Scratches
By-Products of Rational Endeavor
"Epper Si Muove"
Evolution of a Vestryman
The Shallowest Sort of Mysticism
BOOK FIVE
Of Poetic Love: Treated with Poetic Inefficiency
Cross-Purposes in Spacious Times
Horvendile to Ettarre: at Whitehall
Horvendile to Ettarre: at Vaux-le-Vicomte
Horvendile to Ettarre: in the Conciergerie
Of One Enigma That Treatened to Prove Allegorical
Treats of Witches, Mixed Drinks, and the Weather
BOOK SIX
Sundry Disclosures of the Press
Considerations toward Sunset
One Way of Elusion
Past Storisende Fares the Road of Use and Wont
Which Mr. Flaherty Does Not Quite Explain
The Epilogue