The Collected Essays Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Collected Essays Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, Vol. 1: 1880-1920I own to having been not a little surprised when my old friend Mr. Dent (whose first publication, The Essays of Elia, I edited many years ago) expressed a desire to produce a collected edition of my essays - "if my poor ramblings amount to that appellation."I had lately brought myself to believe that my race as an essayist was run, and remembering that it had begun more than thirty-eight years ago, my vanity was not in the least wounded by that sombre reflection.During this prolonged period I have enjoyed (for an essayist of my calibre) a considerable circulation, both at home and in the United States, where from the first Messrs. Scribners had done their honest best for me even in the old unprotected days, and as a book-hunter from boyhood I knew that in due time the purchased volumes would find their way to the stall and the "second-hand" catalogue, and so be bandied about from one owner to another for an indefinite period of time.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.