Men, Women and Ghosts

Contents

Figurines in Old Saxe

Patterns
Pickthorn Manor
The Cremona Violin
The Cross-Roads
A Roxbury Garden
1777

Bronze Tablets

The Fruit Shop
Malmaison
The Hammers
Two Travellers in the Place Vendome

War Pictures

The Allies
The Bombardment
Lead Soldiers
The Painter on Silk
A Ballad of Footmen

The Overgrown Pasture

Reaping
Off the Turnpike
The Grocery
Number 3 on the Docket

Clocks Tick a Century

Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening
The Paper Windmill
The Red Lacquer Music-Stand
Spring Day
The Dinner-Party
Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques", for String Quartet
Towns in Colour
Red Slippers
Thompson's Lunch Room -- Grand Central Station
An Opera House
Afternoon Rain in State Street
An Aquarium

The two sea songs quoted in "The Hammers" are taken from
`Songs: Naval and Nautical, of the