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Not only does it reprint the scribblings, random observations, inventories and disjecta membra of France’s second greatest poet — the greatest being, as Andre Gide remarked, “Victor Hugo, alas” — all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth’s learned, elegantly written commentary.

"Professor Winterthorn's Journey" is full of the disjecta membra of idle small talk, and in the following sequence, "The Suit of Mistress Quickly", Reid has written what is almost a piece of sound poetry.

There lay all that remained of Mrs. Sykes—the disjecta membra, the fragmenta—the casket!

No chance here for even the unwitting insertion of that terrible purple boss; indeed the grapes of wrath were no longer in existence, for Chalmers Warriner had taken pains to have every bit of the disjecta membra of the old windows gathered up and buried in some inaccesible pit, its very location to remain forever hidden from human eyes.

I observed to-day, at Cape St. Comb, large angular fragments of a species of coarse granular sandstone rock, which appear to be disjecta membra of a much more recent formation than that underlying the prevalent surface formation.