Whereupon the dreamer awakes. He is still only ten years old and he has lived until thirty in his dream. Now the dream is gone. His father, the Comte de Puysange, wakes him up. But Florian is not yet through with dreaming awake, in spite of the author’s final statement that henceforward Florian de Puysange settled down, and like Jurgen, descended from heaven to earth. Thus “The High Place” takes on at the end an authentic air of a novel Doctor Faustus. But let us reach the last part of the cycle, “The Cream of the Jest,” “a comedy of evasions.” * * * * * The principal character of the book, Felix Kennaston, is already known to readers of Cabell; he was the ironist in one of his early works, “The Eagle’s Shadow.” Kennaston had from remote descent authentic blood of Dom Manuel and Jurgen in his veins. The book which portrays him is a veritable treatise in romantic disguises. It harks back to the thesis unfolded by the author in “Beyond Life.” Not satisfied with upholding the rights of fiction, Cabell now shows us a writer of fiction at work. Are we to see Cabell himself in Felix Kennaston? They look very much alike. Kennaston too is writing an allegorical saga. One day, while walking in his garden, he had stepped upon a little shining metal disc which plays an important part in the book. (Each one of Cabell’s novels has revolved around some talisman or charm.) Felix Kennaston’s imagination gave a life of its own to this piece of metal. It became a magic seal, the Sigil of Scoteia, a Key to Dreamland. Whenever light touched it, Kennaston fell into a trance and dreamt curious dreams. Thanks to this sigil, he spent his whole life dreaming and he was not alone in his dreams. Of course he too flirted therein with a fairy, La Belle Ettare, beautiful, enchanting, wonderfully accomplished, and of whom Kennaston’s wife became reasonably jealous. The book is a novel of intrigue only incidentally. The real subject is the study of Kennaston’s mind at work. Behind him we see the author pointing an explanatory finger.