Page 61--Reference to “the bed” is made--But for whom? The bride. A bridal bed is not obscene or lewd. _Vide_ wedding march in “Lohengrin”, and the relative chapters in Scott’s “The Bride of Lammermuir”. Page 63--“Had wondered if he were really the first man for whom she had put a deceit upon her husband”, etc. If this is obscene, then nearly all current fiction is, to say nothing of the classics, ancient or modern. Page 64--Jurgen counts up his conquests. But so did Don Juan. “The end of all is death”--but so said Villon--“_Ou sont les nieges d’antan?_” Page 67--Speaks simply of a kiss. Whether long or short, a kiss is not lewd. Page 80--Jurgen is talking about Guenevere to her father--“I can get justice done me anywhere, in all the bed chambers of the world.” If this is lewd, then we should abolish Ophelia’s mad song in Hamlet. Anyhow, Jurgen goes on to say (same page) “I only meant in a manner of speaking, sir.” Pages 84-6--Jurgen tells Yolande she must reward him by candle light, etc. This contains no description of any offensive act. There is nothing explicit. Page 89--Guenevere’s father suspects that she was not entirely chaste while in the giant’s cavern. Has literature, ancient or modern, never previously exposed a father’s doubt of his daughter’s chastity? Did no one ever study the Greek tragedies? Page 90--The King wonders whether “a thing like this is happening” in his city in many places, and Jurgen says that it probably is. Sinclair Lewis has similar speculations in “Babbitt”. The references to a “breakage” refer to infractions of moral law. Page 92--The King says that, if Jurgen has had improper relations with Guenevere, he should lie like a gentleman. Where is the obscenity? Has not that phrase become time-worn, in literature and conversation, since the late eighties? Page 98--Jurgen looks forward “to more intimate converse” with the lady. Entirely compatible with just what it says. The dreadful word “liaison” also is used. But the late war has brought it into such use--“liaison officer”; “liaison between the Y. M. C. A. and the chaplains’ corps”, etc.--that the word now has _Anglice_ the extensive meaning that the French always allowed it.