Lords of the Housetops

Thirteen Cat Tales

(1921)

By Various Authors

Edited by Carl Van Vechten

Contents:

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat,

Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut,

Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion,

Honor de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat,

(translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten),

Booth Tarkington: Gipsy,

G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad,

Mark Twain: d**k Baker's Cat,

Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat,

Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolic**'s Cat,

W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat,

William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend,

Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat,

Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin.

With A Preface By Carl Van Vechten

C'est l'esprit familier du lieu;

Il juge, il pr****, il inspire

Toutes choses dans son empire;

Peut-*** est-il f*, est-il dieu.

--Charles Baudelaire.

These stories I have collected to amuse Avery Hopwood