Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

by Don Marquis

HERMIONE
AND
HER LITTLE GROUP
OF SERIOUS THINKERS

BY
DON MARQUIS
AUTHOR OF "THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.," ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORKLONDON

1923

Copyright. 1916, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Proem—Introducing Some of Hermione's Friends	1
Sincerity in the Home	5
Vibrations	8
Aren't the Russians Wonderful?	11
How Suffering Purifies One!	13
Understanding and One's Own Home	16
Thoughts of Heredity and Things	19
The Swami Brandranath	22
Fothergil Finch, the Poet of Revolt	24
How the Swami Happened to Have Seven Wives	29
The Romantic Old Days	32
Hermione's Boswell Explains	34
Symbols and Dew-Hopping	36
The Song of the Snore	39
Ballade of Understanding	45
Hermione on Fashions and War	47
Urges and Dogs	50
Moods and Poppies	53
Concentration	57
Soul Mates	59
Hermione Takes Up Literature	62
The World Is Getting Better	66
War and Art	68
A Spiritual Dialogue	71
Will the Best People Receive the Superman Socially?	73
The Parasite Woman Must Go!	76
The House Beautiful	79
Mamma Is So Mid-Victorian	81
Voke Easeley and His New Art	84
Hermione on Superficiality	89
Isis, the Astrologist	92
The Simple Home Festivals	96
Citronella and Stegomyia	100
Hermione's Salon Opens (Verse)	104
The Perfume Factory	109
On Being Other-Worldly	112
Parents, and Their Influence	114
Fothergil Finch Tell of His Revolt Against Organized Society	117
The Exotic and the Unemployed	120
Souls and Toes	123
Kultur and Things	128
The Spirit of Christmas	131
Poor Dear Mamma and Fothergil Finch	134
Prison Reform and Poise	139
An Example of Psychic Power	141
Some Beautiful Thoughts	145
The Bourgeois Element and Background	148
Taking Up the Liquor Problem	150
The Japanese are Wonderful, If You Get What I Mean	154
She Refuses to Give Up the Cosmos	157
The Cave Man	159
The Little Group Gives a Pagan Masque	163
Sympathy	167
Blouses, Bulgars, and Buttermilk	171
Twilight Sleep	173
Intuition	175
Stimulating Influences	178
Politics	181
Hermione on Psychical Research	183
Envoy—(Hermione the Deathless)	187

HERMIONE