o arms serving
in the mean capacity of advertising laundry soap.

For me the work of Gertrude Stein consists in a rebuilding, an entire
new recasting of life, in the city of words. Here is one artist who has
been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of
writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage,
and wearing the bays of the great poets, to go live among the little
housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the
honest working, money saving words, and all the other forgotten and
neglected citizens of the sacred and half forgotten city.

Would it not be a lovely and charmingly ironic gesture of the gods if,
in the end, the work of this artist were to prove the most lasting and
important of all the word slingers of our generation!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SUSIE ASADO 13

ADA 14

MISS FURR AND MISS SKEENE 17

A COLLECTION 23

FRANCE 27

AMERICANS 39

ITALIANS 46

A SWEET TAIL (GYPSIES) 65

THE HISTORY OF BELMONTE 70

IN THE GRASS (ON SPAIN) 75

ENGLAND 82

MALLORCAN STORIES 96

SCENES. ACTIONS AND DISPOSITIONS OF RELATIONS AND POSITIONS 97

THE KING OR SOMETHING (THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO DANCE) 122

PUBLISHERS, THE PORTRAIT GALLERY, AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE
BRITISH MUSEUM 134

ROCHE 141

BRAQUE 144

PORTRAIT OF PRINCE B. D. 150

MRS. WHITEHEAD 154

PORTRAIT OF CONSTANCE FLETCHER 157

A POEM ABOUT WALBERG 166

JOHNNY GREY