The Song of the Sirens and Other Stories

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The Song of the Sirens and Other Stories (1919)
by Edward Lucas White
Preface
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1919.

Seven of these ten tales are drawn from Greek or Roman life; "The Elephant's Ear," to be exact, is a story of Hannibal. This story, like "The Fasces" and "The Swimmers," frankly owes its idea to a quoted sentence from the "Strategematicon" of Julius Frontinus. They are all successful, but the last-named particularly so, in catching a dramatic hint from the sober lines of the chronicler, and reading life into it. Here is our cue for "The Swimmer": "Liburni, cum vadosa loca obsedissent, …" The story-teller's fancy is roused by the question: What happened to the Roman captain who let his ship be coaxed upon a shoal and taken in this ridiculous fashion? Let the trireme be a whole fleet, the captain a young commodore, with his career before him, ambitious and a lover. What did the Emperor do to him? … —from the review in The Nation 26 April 1919 (See Discussion page for the full review)

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The
SONG OF THE SIRENS
and Other Stories

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

EL SUPREMO:

A Romance of the great Dictator of Paraguay.

$1.90 net

THE
UNWILLING VESTAL:
A Story of Rome under the Caesars.

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E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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The
SONG OF THE SIRENS

and Other Stories

BY
EDWARD LUCAS WHITE

AUTHOR OF
"El Supremo," "The Unwilling Vestal," Etc.

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue

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Copyright, 1919
By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

All rights reserved

First Printing Feb., 1919
Second Printing Mar., 1919

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

  1. page
  2. Preface v
  3. The Song of the Sirens 1
  4. Iarbas 57
  5. The Right Man 85
  6. Dodona 107
  7. The Elephant's Ear 139
  8. The Fasces 165
  9. The Swimmers 225
  10. The Skewbald Panther 247
  11. Disvola 297
  12. The Flambeau Bracket 325


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