Excerpt from Wiltshire Essays Iam obliged to him. He is right, and a permanent irritation of mine is much allayed by his observation. Not withstanding that full five-and-twenty years have coursed over this frosted pow since I belauded the youth of Italy, notwithstanding that I have published seven volumes of poems, and scarcely a volume in prose which was not con ceived as a poem is conceived, it is still the fact that Six readers out of ten expect every new book of mine that reaches them to be more or less of an echo of Tim Forest Lo-verr. What am I to do? It imputes to me incredible stupidity, itself is incredibly stupid-and what can one do with Stupidity except foam at the mouth? Somebody sent me a specimen of his prowess in that kind only the other day, a chuckle-headed K. K.' writing in I know not what journal. 'admirers of Mr. Hewlett's graceful pen', he said - or words to that efiect will be disappointed when they open In a Green Sbade and find that it is not a swash buckling romance. And so on. What are you to do I don't think that I have ever swashed a buckler seriously, though when the sort of thing has lent itself to my humour I may have gone a part of the way with it, or even a little. 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.