Excerpt from The Circus and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces The ten highly humorous and altogether charm ing essays which form the first part of this volume have led a rather queer life SO far-though I think their existence will be a very happy one from now on. First, they were not essays at the time Of their birth. They came into the world as articles. SO they were Spoken Of by the young journalist who at various times and with very little to do about the matter wrote them in the course Of a bewildering variety Of other activities. Or, to be still more frank, he was perhaps more apt to refer to them, when he did refer to them at all, as Sun day stories, done as a' part of his job with the N em York Times Sunday Magazine. What they were called, however, is neither here nor there. The thing 15 that they are here. 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.