By now the fretful babblings of the prurient over the amatory excursions of Messire Jurgen have subsided. Instead of bothering to discover phallic parables in every casual allusion, adult readers take the keenest delight in the nimble satire of this morality in behalf of monogamy and common-sense. Jurgen, thanks to the obscenity seekers, has become Cabell's best-known novel. Now it takes its rightful place on the shelf of the Modern Library beside his two other illustrious books— The Cream of the Jest (126) and Beyond Life (25).