Excerpt from Seymour Hicks: Twenty-Four Years of an Actor's LifeWhen a man sits down to write a book about him self, generally he does so from one of four reasons: sheer impertinence, a lack of humour, the hope of advertise ment, or because he knows that while writing little about himself it gives him an opportunity to saya great deal about other people. I frankly plead guilty to the last two, and having gone thus far on the road of truth, let me push on yet another milestone.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 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.