Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [ Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. Possible typesetting errors, spelling mistakes and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been preserved as they appear in the printed edition, including paragraphs with no or non-sentence-ending punctuation at the end. Passages with questionable text are listed at the end of this document. This text version does not attempt to reproduce the layout of the printed book; please consult the HTML version if you are interested in the original layout. ] GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS By GERTRUDE STEIN Three Lives Matisse and Picasso Mabel Dodge of the Villa Curonia Tender Buttons Have They Attacked Mary. He Giggled. (_A Political Satire._) GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS BY GERTRUDE STEIN BOSTON THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1922, by The Four Seas Company The Four Seas Press Boston, Mass., U. S. A. THE WORK OF GERTRUDE STEIN By SHERWOOD ANDERSON One evening in the winter, some years ago, my brother came to my rooms in the city of Chicago bringing with him a book by Gertrude Stein. The book was called _Tender Buttons_ and, just at that time, there was a good deal of fuss and fun being made over it in American newspapers. I had already read a book of Miss Stein's called _Three Lives_ and had thought it contained some of the best writing ever done by an American. I was curious about this new book. My brother had been at some sort of a gathering of literary people on the evening before and someone had read aloud from Miss Stein's new book. The party had been a success. After a few lines the reader stopped and was greeted by loud shouts of laughter. It was generally agreed that the author had done a thing we Americans call "putting something across"--the meaning being that she had, by a strange freakish performance, managed to attract attention to herself, get herself discussed in the newspapers, become for a time a figure in our hurried, harried lives.