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More from James Branch Cabell

  1. A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut o…

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  2. Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the write…

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  3. I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requis…

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