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THE POWDER OF
SYMPATHY
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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Translations from the Chinese
THE POWDER OF
SYMPATHY
BY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Strange, when you come to think ofit, that of all the countless folk whohave lived before our time on this planetnot one is known in history or inlegend as having died of laughter.
—Max Beerbohm
ILLUSTRATED
BY
WALTER JACK DUNCAN
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING POST, INC.
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
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DEDICATION
TO FELIX RIESENBERG and FRANKLIN ABBOTT
Dear Felix, dear Frank:—It is a pleasant circumstancethat as one sets about collecting materialfor a book, scissoring night after night among scrapbooksto determine what may or may not be worthrevisiting the glimpses of the press, there comes tomind with perfect naturalness who should carry theonus of the dedication. For a book is a frail andhuman emanation, and has its own instinctive dispositiontoward a certain kind of people. ThesePowders of S