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Excerpt from Cynthia a Daughter of the Philistines, Vol. 1 Why! Are you serious? Because your income is an unknown quantity. Because you've had a literary success, not a popular one. Because, if you keep single. 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 t...

Excerpt from A Chair on the BoulevardThese disjointed thoughts about one of Leonard Merrick's most articulate books must begin With a personal confession.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from The Man Who Understood Women, and Other Stories One Of our most delightful novelists has recently written a preface to a collection of his short stories in which he apologises for dis interring them from magazines and resuscitating them in book form. I think he ought not to have done it. If a preface were needed, it should have been written rather as an appeal, than as a warning. It should have been in the nature Of a bugle-blast...

Excerpt from The Quaint Companions The Chief fault of The Quaint Companions is that it ends. Mr. Merrick is no follower of the "well-made novel" school, he accepts his liberties as an English novelist, and this book has not only the beginning and middle and end of one story, but the beginning and some of the middle of another. The intelligent reader would be the gladder if it went on to that second end, and even then he might feel there was m...

Excerpt from While Paris Laughed Being Pranks: And Passions of the Poet Tricotrin On the quai de Passy, in Paris, stands an unattractive little cafe with a witty window. A faded announcement in the language of the land informs the observant that "One is Better Off in Here than Opposite." And when one glances opposite, the alternative is - the river. Without a premonition that he was to discover this humble cafe, so remote from his lodging of...

Excerpt from One Man's View But in such honest dating, and in the inferences we may draw from it, lie perhaps some of the peculiar merits of Mr. Merrick's method - his straight telling of a tale. And digging to the heart of the book, the One Man's View of his faithless wife - more importantly too, the wife's view of herself - is, in a sense, an historic view. Not, of course, in its human essentials. Those must be true or false of this man and...

Excerpt from The Man Who Understood Women Our bitterest remorse is not for our sins, but for our stupidi ties. - Excerpt from Wendover's new novel. 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 orig...

Excerpt from Violet Moses The occupant of the room was a young man. He had once been a very fortunate young man, but lie was not fortunate now, as his clothes denoted. The suit he wore had left Bond Street four years since, before the crash came which had heralded his majority, and to-day the mother who had paid for it subsisted on infinitesimal dividends in a London boarding-house, and the shabby young man was fighting the world alone. Abou...

Excerpt from This Stage of Fools The description was not very attractive to the Oxford man, but being already uncomfortably conscious that his uncle did not think much of him, he made a gallant attempt to simulate an alacrity he could not feel. The introductions were duly effected, and, having procured a licence, Willy embarked on his career as a diamond broker without delay, equipped with a morocco-leather satchel furnished with many pocket...

Excerpt from The Position of Peggy Harper Scene of her final dismissal of Christopher, short as it is, and the incidents immediately leading up to it, are among the perfect bits of verisimilitude in fiction. The young lady's last speech - to quote it would spoil the thrill - is an ineradicable memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...

Excerpt from Cynthia MY first acquaintance with Mr. Merrick's engaging and stimulating muse was made in the pages of Violet Moses, an early work, which ap peared, I remember, in three volumes. Reading it again in the light of my appreciation of what its author has done since, I think of it now as I felt of it then. It has great promise, and though its texture is slight its fibres are of steel. It shows the light hand, which has grown no heavi...

Excerpt from Cynthia, Vol. 2 of 2: A Daughter of the Philistines Cynthia was terribly grieved and startled. She dashed off eight pages of love and inquiries by the evening mail, and when the news was confirmed, with more particulars, she felt she could do no less than run over to utter her sympathy in person. Kent agreed that perhaps it was advisable, and raised the money that was necessary cheerfully enough by pawning his watch and chain. O...

Excerpt from The Actor-Manager: With an Introd, by W. D. Howells The dignity of the action thrilled him with pleas ure and respect, he felt that she could not have done anything more beautiful. She removed her cape and gloves, and, kneeling on the hearth, coaxed the fire into a blaze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament I speak, of course, only for myself, but there is no doubt to my mind that Conrad in Quest of His Youth is the best sentimental journey that has been written in this country since the publication of the other one, so gay it is, so sad, of such an alluring spirit, so fine a temper. I know scarcely a novel by any living English man except a score or so of Mr. Hardy's, tha...

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Excerpt from The Call From the Past, and Other Stories At the door of her lodging, Paulette has given to each a pressure of the hand, and said gently, Till to morrow. 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, ...

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