_THE PHOENIX LIBRARY_ ANTIC HAY _THE PHOENIX LIBRARY_ QUEEN VICTORIA _by_ Lytton Strachey EMINENT VICTORIANS Lytton Strachey ANTIC HAY Aldous Huxley ALONG THE ROAD Aldous Huxley TALES OF THE FIVE TOWNS Arnold Bennett THE MERCY OF ALLAH Hilaire Belloc LADY INTO FOX and A MAN IN THE ZOO (1 vol.) David Garnett BOOKS & CHARACTERS Lytton Strachey FIERY PARTICLES C. E. Montague FIRST PLAYS A. A. Milne CROME YELLOW Aldous Huxley ART Clive Bell DISENCHANTMENT C. E. Montague THOSE BARREN LEAVES Aldous Huxley VISION AND DESIGN Roger Fry ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST Julian Huxley PLAYS Richard Hughes LIMBO Aldous Huxley SECOND PLAYS A. A. Milne THE RIGHT PLACE C. E. Montague THE SAILOR’S RETURN David Garnett MORTAL COILS Aldous Huxley MR. WESTON’S GOOD WINE T. F. Powys LOLLY WILLOWES Sylvia Townsend Warner ON THE MARGIN Aldous Huxley THE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS Arnold Bennett TARR Wyndham Lewis LITTLE MEXICAN Aldous Huxley 97 & 99 St. Martin’s Lane London, W. C. 2 ANTIC HAY _By_ ALDOUS HUXLEY [Illustration] CHATTO AND WINDUS LONDON First published November 1923 Printed in Great Britain; all rights reserved MY MEN LIKE SATYRS GRAZING ON THE LAWNS SHALL WITH THEIR GOAT-FEET DANCE THE ANTIC HAY. _Marlowe_ ANTIC HAY CHAPTER I