Excerpt from Their Child And on the Continent. In 1895 he went abroad for fifteen months, for rest and literary work, living in Paris and F lor ence during most of the period. While in Europe he wrote the first draft of The Man Who Wins, which was published two years later; also the first form of The Gospel of Freedom, and various short stories, which were first published in the magazines and afterward reprinted in Literary Love Letters and Other Stories, and in Love's Dilemmas. In addition to his writing in the line of fiction, Mr. Herrick has done a great deal of work on more or less professional topics. Magazine articles about methods of teaching rhetoric, introductions and notes for school editions of classics, one or two text-books on rhetoric, - these items give an idea of the sort of work which has occupied Mr. Herrick's atten tion apart from fiction. He is one of the few modern American writers who have the courage and the strength to paint lifeexactly as they see it, in its its beauty, its sombreness, and its sorrow alike, without making it seem happier or nearer the ideal than it is. 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.