Excerpt from Chats by the Fireside: A Study in Life, Art and Literature The Chats contained in this little volume have appeared during the past two years in the columns of the New World, of Chicago, and the Catholic Register, of Toronto, Ontario. They have been written in the few leisure moments that come to a busy editor whose journalistic duties shut out the heaven of dreams. The author would fain hope that these informal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.