Publisher's Synopsis
There is a certain malady of the mind induced by too much of one thing. Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fe-ver." True, it parades under different names, according to circumstances and caste. You may be afflicted in a palace and call it ennui, and it may drive you to commit pecca-dillos and indiscretions of various sorts. You may be at-tacked in a middle-class apartment house, and call it var-ious names, and it may drive you to cafe life and affinities and alimony.
