BIZARRE

By the Same Author

SCRAMBLED EGGS

His symphony depicted the sorrows of Russia, the height of the steppes, and the agonies of indigestion.

Copyright 1922

By Lieber & Lewis

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To my favorite poet

Virginia Woods Mackall

The author thanks Life, Judge, The Century, The Quill, The New York Times, The Literary Review, and The New York Tribune for kind permission to include in this volume certain contributions to those publications. He hopes he has remembered to ask such permission in each case.

PREFACE

As good form requires that an author mention in his preface the persons to whom he is chiefly indebted, I take this opportunity of stating that during the preparation of this book I became appreciably indebted to Dr. Warren S. Holder, my dentist, Mr. William Vroom, my tailor, Mr. M. Tesshow, my stationer and tobacconist, and Messrs. Acker, Merrall & Condit, my grocers.

Although these gentlemen neither "corrected the proofs" of my book nor "saw it through the press," nor allowed me access to rare documents and family letters, nor treated me to intimate accounts of their fathers and great uncles as they knew them; though they did none of these customary things, nevertheless I became decidedly their debtor—and still am.

Indeed, without their stimulus this book might never have been written.

L. M.