The said Guy Holt, Robert M. McBride & Co., a corporation at all times herein mentioned existing under the laws of the State of New York, and Robert M. McBride, acting together and in concert, in the County of New York aforesaid, on the 14th day of January, 1920, and for a considerable time prior thereto, with intent to sell and show, unlawfully possessed a lewd, lascivious, indecent, obscene and disgusting book entitled JURGEN, a more particular description of which said book would be offensive to this Court and improper to be spread upon the records thereof, wherefore such description is not here given; against the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the State of New York, and their dignity. +Edward Swann+, District Attorney. [5] The numerals in parentheses refer to the pages. [6] (Cf. the old Scottish Border legend, “The Eve of St. John”, to be found in Scott’s “Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border”; and Compton Mackenzie’s latest novel, “Altar Steps”.) [7] It would be impossible to go further except by quoting all (290-308). It should be read. Transcriber’s Notes - Original italic text is pre- and postfixed with an underscore, "_". - Original text in small caps is pre- and postfixed with a plus, "+". - The prologue has numbered footnotes and the body text used footnotes marked with asterisks. Continued the numbered footnotes through the body text. Moved the footnotes to the end of the text. - Changed three instances of “mediaeval” to “mediæval” which was used in four other instances. - Changed three instances of "to-day" to "today", which was used more frequently in both plain and quoted texts. - The author uses "_St. Hubert’s Guild_ v. _Quinn_ (64 Misc. 336)" both with and without the possessive on "Hubert." These inconsistencies left as in the original. - p. 43 Corrected "typefies" to "typifies". - p. 52 Removed duplicate “have” from “should never have have been allowed”. - p. 64 Added missing end quote after “city of Pseudopolis”. - p. 65 Section (d) in the original was originally labelled as section (e) and there was no section (d). - p. 78 In the New York state code, the paragraph starting with "3." ends with a comma. Corrected this to be consistent with other numbered paragraphs. - p. 78 Corrected "misdeameanor" to "misdemeanor". - All other uncommon or contemporary spellings and punctuation left as in the original. - The text under discussion is available from Project Gutenberg: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell. (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8771)