BIZARRE
By the Same Author
SCRAMBLED EGGS
His symphony depicted the sorrows of Russia, the heightof 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 YorkTimes, The Literary Review, and The New York Tribune for kindpermission to include in this volume certain contributions to thosepublications. He hopes he has remembered to ask such permission in eachcase.
PREFACE
As good form requires that an author mention in his preface the personsto whom he is chiefly indebted, I take this opportunity of stating thatduring 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 andfamily letters, nor treated me to intimate accounts of their fathers andgreat uncles as they knew them; though they did none of these customarythings, nevertheless I became decidedly their debtor—and still am.
Indeed, without their stimulus this book might never have been written.
