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Title: Journeys to Bagdad

Author: Charles S. Brooks

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Words or phrases in italics are enclosed by underscores.

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JOURNEYS TO BAGDAD

by

CHARLES S. BROOKS

Illustrated with Original Wood-Cuts by Allen Lewis

[Illustration]

Yale University Press
New Haven Connecticut
M D CCCC XV
Copyright, 1915, by
Yale University Press
First printed November, 1915, 1000 copies

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The Yale University Press makes grateful acknowledgment to the
Editors of the _Yale Review_ and of the _New Republic_ for
permission to include in the present work essays of which they were
the original publishers.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. Journeys to Bagdad
II. The Worst Edition of Shakespeare
III. The Decline of Night-Caps
IV. Maps and Rabbit-Holes
V. Tunes for Spring
VI. Respectfully Submitted--To a Mournful Air
VII. The Chilly Presence of Hard-headed Persons
VIII. Hoopskirts and Other Lively Matter
IX. On Traveling
X. Through the Scuttle with the Tinman

JOURNEYS TO BAGDAD

[Illustration]

JOURNEYS TO BAGDAD

Are you of that elect who, at certain seasons of the year--perhaps in
March when there is timid promise of the sprin