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Title: The Panchronicon

Author: Harold Steele Mackaye

Release Date: January 1, 2009 [EBook #27682]

Language: English

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THE PANCHRONICON

THE
PANCHRONICON

BY
HAROLD STEELE MACKAYE

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1904

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published, April, 1904

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE THEORY OF COPERNICUS DROOP 1

II. A VISIT TO THE PANCHRONICON 23

III. A NOCTURNAL EVASION 38

IV. A CHANGE OF PLAN 58

V. DROOP'S THEORY IN PRACTICE 86

VI. SHIPWRECKED ON THE SANDS OF TIME 103

VII. NEW TIES AND OLD RELATIONS 123

VIII. HOW FRANCIS BACON CHEATED THE BAILIFFS 157

IX. PHOEBE AT THE PEACOCK INN 179

X. HOW THE QUEEN READ HER NEWSPAPER 208

XI. THE FAT KNIGHT AT THE BOAR'S HEAD 242

XII. HOW SHAKESPEARE WROTE HIS PLAYS 258

XIII. HOW THE FAT KNIGHT DID HOMAGE 277

XIV. THE FATE OF SIR PERCEVALL'S SUIT 297

XV. HOW REBECCA RETURNED TO NEWINGTON 317

XVI. HOW SIR GUY KEPT HIS TRYST 324

XVII. REBECCA'S TRUMP CARD 340

THE PANCHRONICON

CHAPTER I

THE THEORY OF