When the Bough Breaks with Black Sparta

This volume brings together the stories and poems from When the Bough Breaks, published in 1924, and Black Sparta, published in 1928. They are: A Sophist in love; 'A wood near Athens'; Arrow-struck; Babes in the wood; Black Sparta; Charilas, in exile, remembers Sparta; Coming into the bay; Cottia went to Bibracte; Got to put up with it now; Krypteia; O Lucky Thessaly!; Peace; Philist's weaving song; Plutarch, in a letter to his brother Lamprias; Professor Whitehead and the poets; Pythian XI; Song; Sophrosyne Castle; Take back your bay wreath; The child Jason is brought to Chiron; The Chosen-by-lot; The epiphany of Poiessa; The exiled oligarchs are driven out of the city; The heart and the head; The highbrow; The Hostages; The lamb misused; The Man from Alesia; The story of Myrto; The Triumph of Faith; Things without remedy; When the Bough Breaks; 'Who will you have for nuts in May?; Wise Diotima.