Chapter I: Front Matter

[Cover Illustration]

Other works by the same author:

“The Fugitive”
“The Little Conscript”
“One of Us”
“The Tether”
“The Jugglers”

T H E
S U B L I M E J E S T E R

_“Calm is my soul, and clear,_
_like the mountains in the morning._
_But they think me cold,_
_and a mocker with terrible_
_jests.”_
_—Also Sprach Zarathustra_

_By_
E Z R A B R U D N O

New York
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
1924

Copyright, 1924
By
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
_All Rights Reserved_

Printed in U. S. A.

PART ONE: A Poet in the Making

Chapter One: The Heritage
” Two: Hedwiga
” Three: The Judengasse
” Four: A Nightingale in a Crow’s Nest
” Five: Hilda
” Six: Eugenie

PART TWO: A Fighter in the Making

Chapter One: The Salon
” Two: Miriam
” Three: The March to Calvary
” Four: Vagabondage

PART THREE: A Cynic in the Making

Chapter One: A Happy Exile
” Two: Marguerite
” Three: The Jest of the Gods

AUTHOR’S NOTE.

_In creating Albert Zorn, the central figure in this romance, I
have followed the life and career of Heinrich Heine. I have
chosen him not only because he singularly typifies the poet with
the “_Weltschmerz_” in his heart, nor because his was an
arresting personality, but because he is preeminently the symbol
of the spirit of his age and his people—the symbol of the
spirit of all ages and all peoples. For, whenever and wherever a
Samson arises, the smug, hypocritical, pharasaical Philistines
are ever ready to fetter him and put out his eyes—and often
there is a Delilah to betray him._

_E. B._