_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
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_