Oblivious of what she did, she began to beat her hands, until they streamed with blood, against the broken glass ends upon the wall: “Yousef, Yousef, Yousef....” _July 1921_, _May 1922_. _Versailles_, _Montreux_, _Florence_. BY THE SAME AUTHOR CARL VAN VECHTEN, in _The Double Dealer:_ “It is high time that the world should know something of the works of Ronald Firbank. He is the Pierrot of the Minute. _Plus chic que le futurisme_. Aubrey Beardsley in a Rolls-Royce. Sacher-Masoch in Mayfair. ‘_A Rebours’ à la mode._ Aretino in Piccadilly. Jean Cocteau at the Savoy. The Oxford Tradition with a dash of the Paris _bains de vapeurs_.... Firbank plays Picasso’s violin.” VAINGLORY A NOVEL WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY FÉLICIEN ROPS [Illustration] TIMES: “A perpetual sparkle.” OBSERVER: “An incessant sparkle.” PALL MALL GAZETTE: “A very clever book.” BELFAST WHIG: “Extraordinary clever.” NEW WITNESS: “The author of this book has a gift for trenchant satire ... one cannot help feeling that Mr Firbank must have gone straight to life for some of these people.” INCLINATIONS A NOVEL WITH TWO DRAWINGS BY ALBERT RUTHERSTON (ROTHENSTEIN) [Illustration] SCOTSMAN: “The book is pleasant, vivacious and stimulating throughout.” IRISH TIMES: “Marked by a certain bizarre lightness of treatment.” NEW WITNESS: “The scheme of his new book is novel.” GLASGOW HERALD: “Mr Ronald Firbank’s fiction bears a strong resemblance to the work of the Futurists in painting.” TIMES: “There is humour.” HARROGATE HERALD: “A quiet vein of humour.” FREEMAN’S JOURNAL: “Pleasant and clever, _Inclinations_ is a book that won’t tax the patience of any reader.” NEW STATESMAN: “The result is amusing.” VALMOUTH A NOVEL WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY AUGUSTUS JOHN [Illustration] TIMES: “All the characters are bizarre--as bizarre as the style.” LONDON MERCURY: “He has a certain gift for inconsequence and highly etherealised frivolity.” SCOTSMAN: “There is no particular plot.” IRISH LIFE: “It is a weird medley of Beardsleyesque chatter.” LAND AND WATER: “This is the real decadence: Huysmans and his friends were muscular giants, playing at bizarre senility, compared with Mr Firbank.” LIVERPOOL POST: “Had Shelley written nothing but _Julian and Maddalo_ and _The Cenci_, we might have called Mr Firbank a prose Shelley.” DAILY NEWS: “Mr Firbank, who can write really witty nonsense.” ATHENÆUM: “But Mr Firbank has talents--a gift of style, a capacity to write dialogue, an appreciation of the beautiful and the absurd. With such gifts he might produce a real comedy of manners. It is to be hoped that he will.” THE PRINCESS ZOUBAROFF A COMEDY WITH A FRONTISPIECE AND DECORATION BY MICHEL SEVIER [Illustration] LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY: