People and Questions (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from People and QuestionsA book of essays, sketches and so forth which I had contributed to various reviews and journals. Perhaps a more fastidious taste has prevented my doing so for the last five years, since such a book is necessarily a medley. The stuff, however, even the stuff I thought worth keeping by me, has been growing and growing, and it is more agreeable to see a book on one's shelves than an awkward mass of cuttings in a drawer. Since the egotism is so obvious it would be futile to dissimulate it: the appeal of such a collection must be largely to one's vanity and a certain fatherly affection. Some appeal, however, there may be to those who have liked one's more coherent books, and some readers have been kind enough to tell me it was a pity not to give a chance of a little longer life to some of the papers I have the honour now to place before you. There is a medley of subjects, and since some of the essays are serious, and some fanciful, and some - What you please: I would not anticipate thecritics too much - there is much difference of manner also. I can only hope there is no change sudden and startling enough seriously to upset the reader. A large number of the things appeared in the Outlook, and I have also to make my acknow ledgments to the Quarterly Review, the Fort nightly Review, the English Review, the Morning Leader, the Illustrated London News, the Pall Mall Magazine, (for one little thing) to Mr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.