TABOO

James Branch Cabell

At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacereTutum semper erit.

NEW YORK

ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY

1921

This edition is limited to nine hundred and twenty numbered copies, of which one hundred copies have been signed by the author.

Copy Number __893__

James Branch Cabell

Revised and reprinted, by permission of theEditors, from The Literary Review

		PAGE
The Dedication		11
Memoir of Saevius Nicanor		17
Prolegomena		21
The Legend:
How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom		25
How the Garbage-Man Came with Forks		26
How Thereupon Ensued a Legal Debate		28
How There Was Babbling in Philistia		29
How It Appeared to the Man in the Street		36
Colophon		39
A Postscript		40

Laudataque virtus crescit

"Buttons, a farthing a pair!
Come, who could buy them of me?
They're round and sound and pretty,
And fit for girls of the city."

(Agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice)

For no short while my indebtedness to you has been such as to requiresom

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