home to their house, where the doctor recommends a loving wife and a trip as the best cure for his "brain fever." After having the butler turn away Capt. Jack and forbid him in the house, Elsie persuades Arthur to take a trip to New York.

The trip is a great success in a Platonic sort of way, for the couple makes a very affectionate brother and sister team. Indeed, at one point there seems to be some real hope for Arthur (or is it Elsie?), for he actually makes a very slight pass at his wife which she foolishly repels out of inborn feminine coquetry. But when Arthur hears a sermon on the nature of sin that horrifies him and makes him take a turn for the worse, until one night he persuades Elsie to go to the opera alone, and when she returns he is gone, trunks and all. Inquiries reveal that Capt. Jack has picked him up.

The years pass and then Elsie reads in the papers of a shocking moral scandal and expose in Paris which involves many Englishmen, including Capt. Jack. Knowing that she will find Arthur thru him, Elsie dashes off to Paris, locates the hotel, and is informed of the fact that Capt. Jack has already been arrested, but that the charming young man is still in the hotel. They go to the room but get no reply to the knocks, so they finally break down the door and there find Arthur. But he's no less cold than usual in his reception of Elsie more so, in fact, since he's dead of laudanum poisoning, the favorite exit means before the discovery and subsequent popularization of barbiturates. And on this tragic note, the accepted standard for homosexual novels in the years to follow, the story abruptly ends.

The same theme has been repeated in recent years by Janet Schane in "The Dazzling Crystal" (1946), but in this case the good woman's pure love finally triumphs. In another one, "The Twisted Heart," by Mary McLaren, the woman finds herself another man and the husband goes back to his old ways. And all of the angles possible are brought together in Isabel Bolton's "The Christmas Tree" (1949), where the poor woman, after bearing a super-normal boy to her homosexual husband, divorces him and marries, but never loves as much, a super-heterosexual man who ends up by being killed by the homosexual ex-, and the latter, in turn, is hustled off to the electric chair.

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PART VIU

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Burns, John Horne. A CRY OF CHILDREN. (n; II). New York: Harper, 1952. Reprints: Bantam 1147 and Popular G194.

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Bums, John Horne. MOMMA. (ss in "The Gallery"; IV). New York: Harper, 1947. Reprints: in "21 Variations on a Theme", New York: Greenberg, 1953; Bantam A807.

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**Burton, Sir Richard (translator). THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT. (several ss in each classification, including the following: "Noureddin Ali of Cairo and His Son Bedreddin Hassan" (nights 20-24), "Kemerezzeman and Budour'' (night 216; "Ali Shar and Zummurud'' (night 326); ''Man's Dispute with the Learned Woman" (night 419; "Abu Nowas and the Three Boys" (night 382; reprinted in D. W. Cory's "21 Variations on a Theme"). vp and vd.

Burton, Sir Richard. TERMINAL ESSAY. (nf in "The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night"; IV). vp, vd. Reprint in: "Homosexuality, a Cross-Cultural Approach" New York: Julian Press, 1956.

Busch, F. PRISONERS AT THE BAR. (nf; II). Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1952.

Butts, Mary. ARMED WITH MADNESS. (n; III). New York: Boni, 1928.

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