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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Matthew Barrie

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE



Compiled by David Widger



BARRIE



CONTENTS

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##  PETER AND WENDY, Illustrated

##  PETER PAN

##  THE STORY OF PETER PAN, Illustrated

##  PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, Illustrted

##  PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, Illustrated

##  THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

MARGARET OGILVY

##  THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

##  DEAR BRUTUS

##  WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

ALICE SIT-BY-THE-FIRE

##  AULD LICHT IDYLLS

##  ECHOES OF THE WAR

##  TOMMY AND GRIZEL

##  MY LADY NICOTINE

##  BETTER DEAD

##  A WINDOW IN THRUMS

##  QUALITY STREET

##  THE LITTLE MINISTER

DER TAG

##  AN EDINBURGH ELEVEN

##  HOLIDAY IN BED, & OTHER SKETCHES

NEITHER DORKING NOR THE ABBEY

##  WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE

COURAGE

##  SENTIMENTAL TOMMY








TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES






PETER AND WENDY

By J. M. Barrie

Illustrated By F. D. Bedford



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PETER BREAKS THROUGH
CHAPTER II THE SHADOW
CHAPTER III COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
CHAPTER IV THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER V THE ISLAND COME TRUE
CHAPTER VI THE LITTLE HOUSE
CHAPTER VII THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND
CHAPTER VIII THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON
CHAPTER IX THE NEVER BIRD
CHAPTER X THE HAPPY HOME
CHAPTER XI WENDY'S STORY
CHAPTER XII THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
CHAPTER XIII DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
CHAPTER XIV THE PIRATE SHIP
CHAPTER XV 'HOOK OR ME THIS TIME'
CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN HOME
CHAPTER XVII WHEN WENDY GREW UP

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE NEVER NEVER LAND
TITLE PAGE
PETER FLEW IN
THE BIRDS WERE FLOWN
LET HIM KEEP WHO CAN
PETER ON GUARD
SUMMER DAYS ON THE LAGOON
"TO DIE WILL BE AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE"
WENDY'S STORY
FLUNG LIKE BALES
HOOK OR ME THIS TIME
"THIS MAN IS MINE!"
PETER AND JANE








PETER PAN

[PETER AND WENDY]

By J. M. Barrie [James Matthew Barrie]

A Millennium Fulcrum Edition
(c)1991 by Duncan Research



CONTENTS

Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH
Chapter 2 THE SHADOW
Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT
Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE
Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE
Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND
Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON
Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD
Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME
Chapter 11 WENDY'S STORY
Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP
Chapter 15 “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”
Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME
Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP






THE STORY OF PETER PAN

The Story Of Peter Pan Retold From The Fairy Play By Sir J.M. Barrie By Daniel O'connor

Illustrated By Alice B. Woodward



CONTENTS

    Page
PART I Early Days 3
PART II The Never-Never-Never Land 27
PART III The Mermaids' Lagoon 43
PART IV The Underground Home 51
PART V The Pirate Ship 65
PART VI Home, Sweet Home 79

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  TO FACE PAGE
With the Spring comes Wendy colour-plate   frontispiece
With Michael sitting on her Back colour-plate   6
The Shadow held on beautifully 14
Wendy gently kissed his Cheek colour-plate   16
Away they floated 22
Slightly was dancing merrily with an Ostrich colour-plate   28
"The Crocodile! the Crocodile!" 32
The Indians crept silently up 34
The Lost Boys knelt before her colour-plate   38
She was combing her Long Tresses 43
She slipped out of his Grasp 44
A Fierce Fight ensued 46
Spreading his Coat to the Wind, he sailed merrily colour-plate   48
Seized by One of the Swarthy Ruffians 59
He perceived Tinker Bell in his Glass colour-plate   62
The Pirate Ship 66
"That Man is mine!" colour-plate   72
Right into the Jaws of the Crocodile! 74
Nurse to the Papooses! 76
He would live in the Kennel till his Children's Return 80






PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

By J. M. Barrie

(From 'The Little White Bird')

With Drawings By Arthur Rackham

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1910



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS
CHAPTER II PETER PAN
CHAPTER III THE THRUSH'S NEST
CHAPTER IV LOCK-OUT TIME
CHAPTER V THE LITTLE HOUSE
CHAPTER VI PETER'S GOAT

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. 'The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives' . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
2. 'The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside'
3. 'Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens'
4. 'When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip'
5. 'Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw'
6. 'After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise'
7. 'For years he had been quietly filling his stocking'
8. 'Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk'
9. 'These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night'
10. 'When her Majesty wants to know the time'
11. 'Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra'
12. 'A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, "Hoity-toity, what is this?"'
13. 'Shook his bald head and murmured, "Cold, quite cold."'
14. 'Fairies never say, "We feel happy"; what they say is, "We feel dancey."'
15. 'Looking very undancey indeed'
16. 'Building the house for Maimie'






PETER PANIN KENSINGTON GARDENS

FROM THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

By J. M. Barrie

Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

London: Hodder & Stoughton

1906



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS
CHAPTER II PETER PAN
CHAPTER III THE THRUSH'S NEST
CHAPTER IV LOCK-OUT TIME
CHAPTER V THE LITTLE HOUSE
CHAPTER VI PETER'S GOAT

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

1. He was quite angry when these two ran away the moment they saw him ... Frontispiece
2. The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives (missing from book)
3. The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside
4. In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing
5. The Hump, which is the part of the Broad Walk where all the big races are run
6. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf (missing from book)
7. The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night there are also drowned stars in it
8. The island on which all the birds are born that become baby boys and girls (missing from book)
9. Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens
10. Away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens
11. The fairies have their tiffs with the birds
12. When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip
13. A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them
14. Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw (missing from book)
15. Peter screamed out, 'Do it again!' and with great good-nature they did it several times
16. A hundred flew off with the string, and Peter clung to the tail
17. After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise
18. 'Preposterous!' cried Solomon in a rage
19. For years he had been quietly filling his stocking
20. When you meet grown-up people in the Gardens who puff and blow as if they thought themselves bigger than they are
21. He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens
22. There now arose a mighty storm, and he was tossed this way and that (missing from book)
23. Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk
24. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively (missing from book)
25. But if you look, and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still pretending to be flowers (missing from book)
26. The fairies are exquisite dancers
27. These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night
28. Linkmen running in front carrying winter cherries
29. When her Majesty wants to know the time
30. The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved
31. Butter is got from the roots of old trees (missing from book)
32. Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit
33. Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra
34. They all tickled him on the shoulder (missing from book)
35. One day they were overheard by a fairy
36. The little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves
37. An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow
38. She ran to St. Govor's Well and hid
39. An elderberry hobbled across the walk, and stood chatting with some young quinces
40. A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-toity, what is this?'
41. They warned her
42. Queen Mab, who rules in the Gardens
43. Shook his bald head and murmured, 'Cold, quite cold'
44. Fairies never say, 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'
45. Looking very undancey indeed
46. 'My Lord Duke,' said the physician elatedly, 'I have the honour to inform your excellency that your grace is in love'
47. Building the house for Maimie
48. If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out (missing from book)
49. They will certainly mischief you (missing from book)
50. I think that quite the most touching sight in the Gardens is the two tombstones of Walter Stephen Matthews and Phoebe Phelps

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

David
Kensington Gardens
Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'
Porthos
One of the Paths that have Made Themselves
Tailpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'
Headpiece to 'Peter Pan'
The birds on the island never got used to him. His oddities tickled them every day
Tailpiece to 'Peter Pan'
Headpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'
Tailpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'
Headpiece to 'Lock-out Time'
They are so cunning
A fairy ring
Tailpiece to 'Lock-out Time'
Headpiece to 'The Little House'
There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk
She escorted them up the Baby Walk and back again
Tailpiece to 'The Little House'
Headpiece to 'Peter's Goat'
Tailpiece to 'Peter's Goat'






THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

OR ADVENTURES IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

By J.M. Barrie





CONTENTS

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD
I David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey
II The Little Nursery Governess
III Her Marriage, Her Clothes, Her Appetite,
          and an Inventory of Her Furniture
IV A Night-Piece
V The Fight For Timothy
VI A Shock
VII The Last of Timothy
VIII The Inconsiderate Waiter
IX A Confirmed Spinster
X Sporting Reflections
XI The Runaway Perambulator
XII The Pleasantest Club in London
XIII The Grand Tour of the Gardens
XIV Peter Pan
XV The Thrush's Nest
XVI Lock-Out Time
XVII The Little House
XVIII Peter's Goat
XIX An Interloper
XX David and Porthos Compared
XXI William Paterson
XXII Joey
XXIII Pilkington's
XXIV Barbara
XXV The Cricket Match
XXVI The Dedication






THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

From The Plays Of J. M. Barrie

A COMEDY

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

ACT I. AT LOAM HOUSE, MAYFAIR
ACT II. THE ISLAND
ACT III.    THE HAPPY HOME
ACT IV. THE OTHER ISLAND






DEAR BRUTUS

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

ACT I
ACT II
ACT III






WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

By James M. Barrie



CONTENTS

ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV






AULD LICHT IDYLLS

CONTENTS

I.   THE SCHOOLHOUSE
II.   THRUMS
III.   THE AULD LICHT KIRK
IV.   LADS AND LASSES
V.   THE AULD LICHTS IN ARMS
VI.   THE OLD DOMINIE
VII.   CREE QUEERY AND MYSY DROLLY
VIII.   THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL
IX.   DAVIT LUNAN'S POLITICAL REMINISCENCES
X.   A VERY OLD FAMILY
XI.   LITTLE RATHIE'S "BURAL"
XII.   A LITERARY CLUB

ILLUSTRATIONS

J. M. BARRIE . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
Sabbath at T'nowhead






ECHOES OF THE WAR

By J. M. Barrie

CONTENTS

THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS
THE NEW WORD
BARBARA'S WEDDING
A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE






TOMMY AND GRIZEL

By J. M. Barrie

Illustrated By Bernard Partridge

CONTENTS

PART I

I. HOW TOMMY FOUND A WAY
II. THE SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE
III. SANDYS ON WOMAN
IV. GRIZEL OF THE CROOKED SMILE
V. THE TOMMY MYTH
VI. GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE DEN
VII. THE BEGINNING OF THE DUEL
VIII. WHAT GRIZEL'S EYES SAID
IX. GALLANT BEHAVIOUR OF T. SANDYS
X. GAVINIA ON THE TRACK
XI. THE TEA-PARTY
XII. IN WHICH A COMEDIAN CHALLENGES TRAGEDY TO BOWLS
XIII. LITTLE WELLS OF GLADNESS
XIV. ELSPETH
XV. BY PROSEN WATER
XVI. "HOW COULD YOU HURT YOUR GRIZEL SO!"
XVII. HOW TOMMY SAVED THE FLAG

PART II

XVIII. THE GIRL SHE HAD BEEN
XIX. OF THE CHANGE IN THOMAS
XX. A LOVE-LETTER
XXI. THE ATTEMPT TO CARRY ELSPETH BY NUMBERS
XXII. GRIZEL'S GLORIOUS HOUR
XXIII. TOMMY LOSES GRIZEL
XXIV. THE MONSTER
XXV. MR. T. SANDYS HAS RETURNED TO TOWN
XXVI. GRIZEL ALL ALONE
XXVII. GRIZEL'S JOURNEY
XXVIII. TWO OF THEM
XXIX. THE RED LIGHT
XXX. THE LITTLE GODS DESERT HIM
XXXI. "THE MAN WITH THE GREETIN' EYES"
XXXII. TOMMY'S BEST WORK
XXXIII. THE LITTLE GODS RETURN WITH A LADY
XXXIV. A WAY IS FOUND FOR TOMMY
XXXV. THE PERFECT LOVER

ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I

And clung to it, his teeth set.
"She is standing behind that tree looking at us."
She did not look up, she waited.

PART II

"I sit still by his arm-chair and tell him what is happening to his Grizel."
They told Aaron something.
"But my friends still call me Mrs. Jerry," she said softly.
"I woke up," she said.
He heard their seductive voices, they danced around him in numbers.






MY LADY NICOTINE

A STUDY IN SMOKE

By J. M. Barrie

Illustrated By M. B. Prendergast



CONTENTS

chap. page
I. Matrimony and Smoking compared 1
II. My First Cigar 11
III. The Arcadia Mixture 18
IV. My Pipes 27
V. My Tobacco-Pouch 38
VI. My Smoking-Table 45
VII. Gilray 52
VIII. Marriot 60
IX. Jimmy 70
[pg viii] X. Scrymgeour 78
XI. His Wife's Cigars 87
XII. Gilray's Flower-Pot 94
XIII. The Grandest Scene in History 103
XIV. My Brother Henry 116
XV. House-Boat "Arcadia" 124
XVI. The Arcadia Mixture Again 133
XVII. The Romance of a Pipe-Cleaner 143
XXVIII. What could he do? 151
XIX. Primus 159
XX. Primus to his Uncle 168
XXI. English-grown Tobacco 177
XXII. How Heroes smoke 186
XXIII. The Ghost of Christmas Eve 194
XXIV. Not the Arcadia 202
XXV. A Face that haunted Marriot 209
XXVI. Arcadians at Bay 216
XXVII. Jimmy's Dream 223
XXVIII. Gilray's Dream 231
XXIX. Pettigrew's Dream 239
XXX. The Murder in the Inn 247
XXXI. The Perils of not Smoking 252
XXXII. My Last Pipe 260
XXXIII. When my Wife is Asleep and all the House is Still 269

ILLUSTRATIONS

Half-Title i
Frontispiece iv
Title-Page v
Headpiece to Table of Contents vii
Tailpiece to Table of Contents viii
Headpiece to List of Illustrations ix
Tailpiece to List of Illustrations xiii
Headpiece to Chap. I. 1
"As well as a spring bonnet and a nice dress" 6
"There are the Japanese fans on the wall" 7
Tailpiece Chap. I. "My wife puts her hand on my shoulder" 10
Headpiece Chap. II. 11
"At last he jumped up" 14
Box of cigars 15
Tailpiece Chap. II. "I firmly lighted my first cigar" 17
Headpiece Chap. III. "Jimmy pins a notice on his door" 18
"We are only to be distinguished by our pipes" 20
The Arcadia Mixture 21
Tailpiece Chap. III. 26
Headpiece Chap. IV. "Oh, see what I have done" 27
"I fell in love with two little meerschaums" 33
Pipes and pouch 36
Tailpiece Chap. IV. 37
Headpiece Chap. V. "They ... made tongs of their knitting-needles to lift it" 38
"I ... cast my old pouch out at the window" 40, 41
"It never quite recovered from its night in the rain" 43
Tailpiece Chap. V. 44
Headpiece Chap VI. "My Smoking-Table" 45
"Sometimes I had knocked it over accidentally" 48
Tailpiece Chap. VI. 51
Headpiece Chap. VII. "We met first in the Merediths' house-boat" 52
"He 'strode away blowing great clouds into the air,'" 57
Tailpiece Chap. VII. "The Arcadia had him for its own" 59
Headpiece Chap. VIII. "I let him talk on" 60
Pipes and jar of spills 62, 63
Tray of pipes and cigars 64
"I would ... light him to his sleeping-chamber with a spill" 68
Tailpiece Chap. VIII. 69
Headpiece Chap. IX. "The stem was a long cherry-wood" 70
"In time ... the Arcadia Mixture made him more and more like the rest of us" 71
"A score of smaller letters were tumbling about my feet" 74
Tailpiece Chap. IX. "Mothers' pets" 77
Headpiece Chap. X. "Scrymgeour was an artist" 78
"With shadowy reptiles crawling across the panels" 81
"Scrymgeour sprang like an acrobat into a Japanese dressing-gown" 84
Tailpiece Chap. X. 86
Headpiece Chap. XI. "His wife's cigars" 87
"A packet of Celebros alighted on my head" 88
"I told her the cigars were excellent" 90
Tailpiece Chap. XI. 93
Headpiece Chap. XII. "Gilray's flower-pot" 94
"Then Arcadians would drop in" 97
"I wrote to him" 99
Tailpiece Chap. XII. "The can nearly fell from my hand" 102
Headpiece Chap. XIII. 103
"Raleigh ... introduced tobacco into this country" 105
The Arcadia Mixture 111
"Ned Alleyn goes from tavern to tavern picking out his men" 113
Tailpiece Chap. XIII. 115
Headpiece Chap. XIV. "I was testing some new Cabanas" 116
"A few weeks later some one tapped me on the shoulder" 118
"Naturally in the circumstances you did not want to talk about Henry" 120
Tailpiece Chap. XIV. 123
Headpiece Chap. XV. "House-boat Arcadia" 124
"I caught my straw hat disappearing on the wings of the wind" 126
"It was the boy come back with the vegetables" 129
Tailpiece Chap. XV. "There was a row all round, which resulted in our division into five parties" 132
Headpiece Chap. XVI. "The Arcadia Mixture again" 133
"On the open window ... stood a round tin of tobacco" 135
"A pipe of the Mixture" 138
"The lady was making pretty faces with a cigarette in her mouth" 139
Tailpiece Chap. XVI. 142
Headpiece Chap. XVII. "He was in love again" 143
"I heard him walking up and down the deck" 145
Tailpiece Chap. XVII. "He took the wire off me and used it to clean his pipe" 150
Headpiece Chap. XVIII. "I had walked from Spondinig to Franzenshohe" 151
"On the middle of the plank she had turned to kiss her hand" 152
"Then she burst into tears" 157
Tailpiece Chap. XVIII. "A wall has risen up between us" 158
Headpiece Chap. XIX. "Primus" 159
"Many tall hats struck, to topple in the dust" 161
"Running after sheep, from which ladies were flying" 163
"I should like to write you a line" 165
Tailpiece Chap. XIX. "I am, respected sir, your diligent pupil" 167
Headpiece Chap. XX. 168
"Reading Primus's letters" 171
Tailpiece Chap. XX. 176
Headpiece Chap. XXI. "English-grown tobacco" 177
"I smoked my third cigar very slowly" 182
Tailpiece Chap. XXI. 185
Headpiece Chap. XXII. "How heroes smoke" 186
"Once, indeed, we do see Strathmore smoking a good cigar" 189
"A half-smoked cigar" 190
"The tall, scornful gentleman who leans lazily against the door" 192
Tailpiece Chap. XXII. 193
Headpiece Chap. XXIII. 194
"The ghost of Christmas eve" 195
"My pipe" 199
"My brier, which I found beneath my pillow" 200
Tailpiece Chap. XXIII. 201
Headpiece Chap. XXIV. "But the pipes were old friends" 202
"It had the paper in its mouth" 205
Tailpiece Chap. XXIV. "I was pleased that I had lost" 208
Headpiece Chap. XXV. "A face that haunted Marriot" 209
"There was the French girl at Algiers" 212
Tailpiece Chap. XXV. 215
Headpiece Chap. XXVI. "Arcadians at bay" 216
Pipes and tobacco-jar 220
Tailpiece Chap. XXVI. "Jimmy began as follows" 222
Headpiece Chap. XXVII. "Jimmy's dream" 223
Pipes 226
"Council for defence calls attention to the prisoner's high and unblemished character" 229
Tailpiece Chap. XXVII. 230
Headpiece Chap. XXVIII. 231
"These indefatigable amateurs began to dance a minuet" 235
A friendly favor 237
Tailpiece Chap. XXVIII. 238
Headpiece Chap. XXIX. "Pettigrew's dream" 239
"He went round the morning-room" 241
"His wife ... filled his pipe for him" 243
"Mrs. Pettigrew sent one of the children to the study" 244
Tailpiece Chap. XXIX. "I awarded the tin of Arcadia to Pettigrew" 246
Headpiece Chap. XXX. "Sometimes I think it is all a dream" 247
Tailpiece Chap. XXX. 251
Headpiece Chap. XXXI. "They thought I had weakly yielded" 252
"They went one night in a body to Pettigrew's" 254
Tailpiece Chap. XXXI. 259
Headpiece Chap. XXXII. 260
"Then we began to smoke" 262
"I conjured up the face of a lady" 265
"Not even Scrymgeour knew what my pouch had been to me" 267
Tailpiece Chap. XXXII. 268
Headpiece Chap. XXXIII. "When my wife is asleep and all the house is still" 269
"The man through the wall" 272
Pipes 275
Tailpiece Chap. XXXIII. 276






THE NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J. M. BARRIE

BETTER DEAD



CONTENTS


I.   ENGAGED?
II.   THE S. D. W. S. P.?
III.   THE GREAT SOCIAL QUESTION?
IV.   WOMAN'S RIGHTS?
V.   DYNAMITERS?
VI.   A CELEBRITY AT HOME?
VII.   EXPERIMENTING?
VIII.   A LOST OPPORTUNITY?
IX.   THE ROOT OF THE MATTER?
X.   THE OLD OLD STORY?






A WINDOW IN THRUMS

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

I   THE HOUSE ON THE BRAE
II   ON THE TRACK OF THE MINISTER
III   PREPARING TO RECEIVE COMPANY
IV   WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR
V   A HUMORIST ON HIS CALLING
VI   DEAD THIS TWENTY YEARS
VII   THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE
VIII   A CLOAK WITH BEADS
IX   THE POWER OF BEAUTY
X   A MAGNUM OPUS
XI   THE GHOST CRADLE
XII   THE TRAGEDY OF A WIFE
XIII   MAKING THE BEST OF IT
XIV   VISITORS AT THE MANSE
XV   HOW GAVIN BIRSE PUT IT TO MAG LOWNIE
XVI   THE SON FROM LONDON
XVII   A HOME FOR GENIUSES
XVIII   LEEBY AND JAMIE
XIX   A TALE OF A GLOVE
XX   THE LAST NIGHT
XXI   JESS LEFT ALONE
XXII   JAMIE'S HOME-COMING

ILLUSTRATIONS

J. M. BARRIE . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
The square foot of glass where Jess sat in her chair and looked down the brae






THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE

QUALITY STREET

A COMEDY

ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV






THE LITTLE MINISTER

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

  PAGE
I. The Love-Light. 1
II. Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister. 7
III. The Night-Watchers. 17
IV. First Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 30
V. A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman. 42
VI. In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums. 50
VII. Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman’s Eyes by way of Text. 62
VIII. 3 A.M.—Monstrous Audacity of the Woman. 69
IX. The Woman Considered in Absence—Adventures of a Military Cloak. 79
X. First Sermon Against Women. 89
XI. Tells in a Whisper of Man’s Fall During the Curling Season. 100
XII. Tragedy of a Mud House. 110
XIII. Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 117
XIV. The Minister Dances to the Woman’s Piping. 125
XV. The Minister Bewitched—Second Sermon against Women. 135
XVI. Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman. 143
XVII. Intrusion of Haggart into These Pages against the Author’s Wish. 151
XVIII. Caddam—Love Leading to a Rupture. 161
XIX. Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women. 169
XX. End of the State of Indecision. 177
XXI. Night—Margaret—Flashing of a Lantern. 186
XXII. Lovers. 196
XXIII. Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter. 205
XXIV. The New World, and the Woman Who May Not Dwell Therein. 211
XXV. Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours. 217
XXVI. Scene at the Spittal. 225
XXVII. First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours. 232
XXVIII. The Hill before Darkness Fell—Scene of the Impending Catastrophe. 237
XXIX. Story of the Egyptian. 244
XXX. The Meeting for Rain. 252
XXXI. Various Bodies Converging on the Hill. 259
XXXII. Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage. 268
XXXIII. While the Ten O’Clock Bell Was Ringing. 274
XXXIV. The Great Rain. 281
XXXV. The Glen at Break of Day. 285
XXXVI. Story of the Dominie. 299
XXXVII. Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours. 308
XXXVIII. Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours—Defence of the Manse. 315
XXXIX. How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth. 324
XL. Babbie and Margaret—Defence of the Manse Continued. 330
XLI. Rintoul and Babbie—Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse. 337
XLII. Margaret, the Precentor, and God Between. 345
XLIII. Rain—Mist—The Jaws. 353
XLIV. End of the Twenty-Four Hours. 363
XLV. Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall. 369






AN EDINBURGH ELEVEN

PENCIL PORTRAITS FROM
COLLEGE LIFE

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

  PAGE
I. Lord Rosebery, 7
II. Professor Masson, 19
III. Professor Blackie, 31
IV. Professor Calderwood, 41
V. Professor Tait, 53
VI. Professor Fraser, 67
VII. Professor Chrystal, 77
VIII. Professor Sellar, 91
IX. Mr. Joseph Thomson, 105
X. Robert Louis Stevenson, 115
XI. Rev. Walter C. Smith, D.D., 129






A Holiday in Bed And other Sketches

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

PAGE.
James Matthew Barrie, 15
A Holiday in Bed, 23
Life in a Country Manse, 37
Life in a Country Manse—A Wedding in a Smiddy, 49
A Powerful Drug, 61
Every Man His own Doctor, 73
Gretna Green Revisited, 87
My Favorite Authoress, 111
The Captain of the School, 121
Thoughtful Boys Make Thoughtful Men, 131
It, 145
To the Influenza, 153
Four-in-Hand Novelists, 161
Rules on Carving, 173
On Running After a Hat, 179






WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE

A Tale of Literary Life

By J. M. Barrie



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I ROB ANGUS IS NOT A FREE MAN 1
CHAPTER II ROB BECOMES FREE 17
CHAPTER III ROB GOES OUT INTO THE WORLD 27
CHAPTER IV 'THE SCORN OF SCORNS' 43
CHAPTER V ROB MARCHES TO HIS FATE 62
CHAPTER VI THE ONE WOMAN 80
CHAPTER VII THE GRAND PASSION? 99
CHAPTER VIII IN FLEET STREET 113
CHAPTER IX MR. NOBLE SIMMS 129
CHAPTER X THE WIGWAM 139
CHAPTER XI ROB IS STRUCK DOWN 156
CHAPTER XII THE STUPID SEX 169
CHAPTER XIII THE HOUSE-BOAT 'TAWNY OWL' 183
CHAPTER XIV MARY OF THE STONY HEART 195
CHAPTER XV COLONEL ABINGER TAKES COMMAND 210
CHAPTER XVI THE BARBER OF ROTTEN ROW 222
CHAPTER XVII ROB PULLS HIMSELF TOGETHER 234
CHAPTER XVIII THE AUDACITY OF ROB ANGUS 245
CHAPTER XIX THE VERDICT OF THRUMS 254






SENTIMENTAL TOMMY

The Story Of His Boyhood

By J. M. Barrie


CONTENTS

SENTIMENTAL TOMMY
CHAPTER I TOMMY CONTRIVES TO KEEP ONE OUT
CHAPTER II BUT THE OTHER GETS IN
CHAPTER III SHOWING HOW TOMMY WAS SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED INTO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
CHAPTER IV THE END OF AN IDYLL
CHAPTER V THE GIRL WITH TWO MOTHERS
CHAPTER VI THE ENCHANTED STREET
CHAPTER VII COMIC OVERTURE TO A TRAGEDY
CHAPTER VIII THE BOY WITH TWO MOTHERS
CHAPTER IX AULD LANG SYNE
CHAPTER X THE FAVORITE OF THE LADIES
CHAPTER XI AARON LATTA
CHAPTER XII A CHILD'S TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XIII SHOWS HOW TOMMY TOOK CARE OF ELSPETH
CHAPTER XIV THE HANKY SCHOOL
CHAPTER XV THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME
CHAPTER XVI THE PAINTED LADY
CHAPTER XVII IN WHICH TOMMY SOLVES THE WOMAN PROBLEM
CHAPTER XVIII THE MUCKLEY
CHAPTER XIX CORP IS BROUGHT TO HEEL—GRIZEL DEFIANT
CHAPTER XX THE SHADOW OF SIR WALTER
CHAPTER XXI THE LAST JACOBITE RISING
CHAPTER XXII THE SIEGE OF THRUMS
CHAPTER XXIII GRIZEL PAYS THREE VISITS
CHAPTER XXIV A ROMANCE OF TWO OLD MAIDS AND A STOUT BACHELOR
CHAPTER XXV A PENNY PASS-BOOK
CHAPTER XXVI TOMMY REPENTS, AND IS NONE THE WORSE FOR IT
CHAPTER XXVII THE LONGER CATECHISM
CHAPTER XXVIII BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MISS KITTY
CHAPTER XXIX TOMMY THE SCHOLAR
CHAPTER XXX END OF THE JACOBITE RISING
CHAPTER XXXI A LETTER TO GOD
CHAPTER XXXII AN ELOPEMENT
CHAPTER XXXIII THERE IS SOME ONE TO LOVE GRIZEL AT LAST
CHAPTER XXXIV WHO TOLD TOMMY TO SPEAK
CHAPTER XXXV THE BRANDING OF TOMMY
CHAPTER XXXVI OF FOUR MINISTERS WHO AFTERWARDS BOASTED THAT THEY HAD KNOWN TOMMY
CHAPTER XXXVII THE END OF A BOYHOOD