HYACINTH had been warned by Mr. Vetch as to what brilliant women might do with him (it was only a word on the old fiddler’s life, but the word had had a point), he had been warned by Paul Muniment, ...

THE house in Madeira Crescent was a low, stucco-fronted edifice, in a shabby, shallow semicircle, and Hyacinth could see, as they approached it, that the window-place in the parlor (which was on a ...

While Heide's celebrated Treehorn found himself shrinking, her new Princess Hyacinth floats. The delight to be found in both books is not in explaining why these fantastical things occur, but in how ...