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Title: Taboo A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir
Author: James Branch Cabell
Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17134]
Language: English
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TABOO _A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir_
By
James Branch Cabell
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_At melius fuerat non scribere, namque tacere Tutum semper erit._
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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__
Copyright, 1921, by
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
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Revised and reprinted, by permission of the Editors, from THE LITERARY REVIEW
CONTENTS.
THE DEDICATION
MEMOIR OF SAEVIUS NICANOR
PROLEGOMENA
THE LEGEND: How Horvendile Met Fate and Custom _How the Garbage-Man Came with Forks_ How Thereupon Ensued a Legal