Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling andpunctuation remains unchanged.
The cover has been prepared by the transcriber and is placedin the public domain.
Endpaper
The
High
Place
BOOKS by MR. CABELL
Biography:
- Beyond Life
- Figures of Earth
- Domnei
- Chivalry
- Jurgen
- The Line of Love
- The High Place
- Gallantry
- The Certain Hour
- The Cords of Vanity
- From the Hidden Way
- The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck
- The Eagle’s Shadow
- The Cream of the Jest
Scholia:
- The Lineage of Lichfield
- Taboo
- Joseph Hergesheimer
- The Jewel Merchants
- Jurgen and the Law
(Edited by Guy Holt)
THE HIGH PLACE:
A COMEDY OF DISENCHANTMENT
BY JAMES BRANCH CABELL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY
FRANK C. PAPÉ
“Build on high place for Chemosh, the abominationof Moab, and for horned Ashtoreth, theabomination of Zidon, and for Moloch, theabomination of the children of Ammon.”
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
NEW YORK: 1923
Copyright, 1923, by
James Branch Cabell...