Note
The author is indebted to the Atlantic Monthly for permission to reprint as the first chapter of this volume an essay which originally appeared in that magazine; to the Christian Science Monitor for permission to use, in quite different form, certain material which has been drawn upon in literary editorials written by him for its columns; to Alban Dobson, Esq., G. Bernard Shaw, Esq., Henry James, Esq., Mrs. Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and others, for permission to print personal letters and photographs.