The World At My Shoulder

THE WORLD AT MY SHOULDER EUNICE TIETJENS The whole world passes at my shoulder And all flesh docs is to grow older. Leaves in Windy Weather New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY FJNICK I IF. rjKNS i 7 Ihora cii, Miami All the characters in this book are real none are fictitious. All persons are referred to and identi fied by their proper names and every word said about them is intentional. To THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER WILLIAM A. HAMMOND Contents At Fifty i 1. The String 3 2. I Join Poetry A Magazine of Verse 21 3. My Friends the Poets 38 4. The Little Review 63 5. En Route for the Orient 70 6. Japan and the Emperors Coronation 78 7. China the Interior 101 8. China of the Tourists 122 9. Chicago Again 129 10, War Correspondent 140 n. 1 Ride with a Corpse 159 12. Domesticity 173 i . We Shove Off for Europe 1 99 14, Tunisia, Land of Enchantment 211 15. South Mountain Road 235 i i. Devastation on Broadway A mbesque 244 17. The Slough of Despond 261 1 8. Sidi-bou-Saul 27 i j. The Goodman Theatre Years 283 20. Our South Sea Island 293 21. ur South Sea IslandThe Natives 3 1 1 I Stop Talking Illustrations Eunice Tietjens 1937 Frontispiece Facing Page Idea L. Hammond, E. T. s mother 10 Harriet Monroe in 1926 30 The young Vachel Lindsay, looking, for some reason, very stern 48 Japanese dignitaries awaiting the arrival of the Emperor at the railway station in Kyoto 80 Selling water-chestnuts on one of the bridges in Wusih 112 After a distribution of toys in the reconquered districts of France 142 E. T. as war correspondent, Paris, 1918 170 Janet in medieval costume in the villa at Settignano 208 A street in Hammamet souks and the Kasbah 218 Part of the traffic that passed in Hammamet Bedouins on the march230 Edgar Lee Masters in the doorway at The Brocken 242 A scene from Norman Bel Gcddcs production of Ara b clique 258 Cloyd Head with Poo-a-Tope, the Ot Sa dancer 296 Little brown bodies on the lagoon in Moorea. Marshall is one of them 314 Portrait of Teura of Moorea, painted by E. T. 318