# Jurgen and the law

Author: Holt, Guy, 1892-1934 [Editor]

Genre: Category: American Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71475

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jurgen+and+the+law+Holt&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If Mr. Cabell had not pre-empted the phrase, the words with which he characterized the tale _Jurgen_ might well be used as a title for an account of the tale’s adventures with the law. Those adventures, which the matter of this book commemorates no less effectively than it helped to divert them from a less happy outcome, form indeed a comedy of justice: a comedy which, perhaps, aroused more of indignation than of mirth, and which, in its duration, somewhat exceeded the time-limit that a canny dramatist allots himself, but which ended appropriately on a note of justice, and thus showed Mr. Cabell to be not only the maker of a happily descriptive phrase but also somewhat of a prophet.

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jurgen-and-the-law-71475/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jurgen-and-the-law-71475/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jurgen-and-the-law-71475/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jurgen-and-the-law-71475/chapters/4/index.md)