BEHIND THE BEYOND By Stephen Leacock CONTENTS BEHIND THE BEYOND 11 FAMILIAR INCIDENTS I. With the Photographer 53 II. The Dentist and the Gas 61 III. My Lost Opportunities 69 IV. My Unknown Friend 74 V. Under the Barber's Knife 84 PARISIAN PASTIMES I. The Advantages of a Polite Education 93 II. The Joys of Philanthropy 104 III. The Simple Life in Paris 117 IV. A Visit to Versailles 129 V. Paris at Night 143 THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS 159 MAKING A MAGAZINE 169 HOMER AND HUMBUG 185 ILLUSTRATIONS The Prologue Frontispiece to face page The curtain rises 12 Their expression is stamped with deep thought 28 He kisses her on the bare shoulder 30 He takes her in his arms 50 "Is it me?" 58 I did go—I kept the appointment 66 He showed me a church that I could have bought for a hundred thousand 72 I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever 84 When he reached my face he looked searchingly at it 88 The tailor shrugged his shoulders 98 Something in the quiet dignity of the young man held me 114 The Parisian dog 120 Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit 142 The lady's face is aglow with moral enthusiasm 146 Meanwhile he had become a quaint-looking elderly man 166 With all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features 174 ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas By Stephen Leacock CONTENTS Page I. THE GREAT ELIZABETHAN NAVIGATORS 1 II. HEARNE'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN 34 III. MACKENZIE DESCENDS THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTH 70 IV. THE MEMORABLE EXPLOITS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN 89 V. THE TRAGEDY OF FRANKLIN'S FATE 112 VI. EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE 136 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 147 INDEX 149 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Stephen Leacock, by Stephen Leacock