Transcriber's note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer errors have been changed and are listed at the end. All other inconsistencies are as in the original.

A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Another Book on the Theater

Europe After 8.15 (_in collaboration with H. L. Mencken_)

Bottoms Up

Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents

_In Preparation_:

The Democratic Theatre

I Love You: A Reminiscence

A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE

BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY NEW YORK NINETEEN EIGHTEEN

COPYRIGHT 1918 BY PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY

Titles of books: Decoys to catch purchasers--_Chatfield._

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Mademoiselle Ex

CONTENTS

I The Atheist 7

II Allies 8

III Viewpoint 9

IV The Mistake 10

V Tempora Mutantur 11

VI Love 12

VII Flippancy 13

VIII The Gift 14

IX Sic Transit-- 15

X The Intruder 16

XI Memory 17

XII Maxim 18

XIII The Greater Love 19

XIV The Public Taste 20

XV The Future 21

XVI Sic Passim 22

XVII The Severer Sentence 23

XVIII Rache 24

XIX Sic Semper Tyrannis 25

XX Respect 26

XXI Temperament 27

XXII Immortality 28

XXIII Inspiration 29

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Book Without A Title by George Jean Nathan
• 2: A Book Without A Title by George Jean Nathan
• 3: One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer
• 4: IXSIC TRANSIT Everyone likes me
• 5: Which his mother most ardently hates
• 6: A dancer threw a kiss to his box
• 7: The beautiful blonde thanked her and said
• 8: XXXIITHE LARIAT A lonely dreamer
• 9: But he kissed the little packet
• 10: Asked August Kraut of the Ouija board
• 11: XLIXTHE PUBLIC The hurdy gurdy man's monkey
• 12: I see upon the creature's hide a flea
• 13: It was not the necklace of diamonds
• 14: Whereupon the king signaled promptly the headsman
• 15: Page 6 Grotesqueries changed to Grotesquerie