Excerpt from Facts and Ideas: Short Studies of Life and Literature

Success is always a pleasant introduction, both for men and books. I may therefore best introduce this small volume by saying that the short essays contained in it have already had a successful career before reaching their present and perhaps, as some may think, unmerited dignity of book publication.

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