pecially, when new faiths are changing
the structure of the world, faiths which are still plastic enough to be
deformed by every disciple, each disciple for himself, and which have
not yet received the final deformation known as universal acceptance,
to-day "Candide" is an inspiration to every narrative satirist who hates
one of these new faiths, or hates every interpretation of it but his
own. Either hatred will serve as a motive to satire.

That is why the present is one of the right moments to republish
"Candide." I hope it will inspire younger men and women, the only ones
who can be inspired, to have a try at Theodore, or Militarism; Jane, or
Pacifism; at So-and-So, the Pragmatist or the Freudian. And I hope, too,
that they will without trying hold their pens with an eighteenth century
lightness, not inappropriate to a philosophic tale. In Voltaire's
fingers, as Anatole France has said, the pen runs and laughs. PHILIP
LITTELL.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. How Candide was brought up in a
Magnificent Castle, and how he was
expelled thence 1

II. What became of Candide among the
Bulgarians 5

III. How Candide made his escape from the
Bulgarians, and what afterwards became
of him 9

IV. How Candide found his old Master
Pangloss, and what happened to them 13

V. Tempest, Shipwreck, Earthquake, and
what became of Doctor Pangloss,
Candide, and James the Anabaptist 18

VI. How the Portuguese made a Beautiful
Auto-da-fe, to prevent any further
Earthquakes: and how Candide was
publicly whipped 23

VII. How the Old Woman took care of
Candide, and how he found the Object
he loved 26

VIII. The History of Cunegonde 30

IX. What became of Cunegonde, Candide,
the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew 35

X. In what distress Candide, Cunegonde,
and the Old Woman arrived at
Cadiz; and of their Embarkation 38

XI. History of the Old Woman