Excerpt from Retrospective Reviews, Vol. 2: A Literary Log; 1893-1895 It reminds me of a similarly defiant preface to Mr. Ernest Radford's characteristic volume of poems: 'many Of these pieces have appeared in magazines to whose editors, with the rarest exceptions, I am under no obligation. Some are here because, to my thinking, I have been able to improve them; and others - because I have not. All is vanity, as the Preacher saith.' 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.