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 and loose concatenation among these scattered discourses, which perhaps I overemphasize in speaking of it at all. But I seem to discover also that I have a little audience which is willing to listen, with the single proviso that it shall be informed where the speaking is going on. It appears therefore almost a duty of courtesy towards that part of the public for which one feels a particular kindness, to collect one's self from time to time into an accessible form.

The first essay is here published for the first time. For the rest, I owe acknowledgments as follows: to McNaught's Magazine for "Forty and Upwards," "On Falling in Hate," and "On Falling in Love"; to the Atlantic Monthly for "Unprintable"; to Charles Scribner's Sons for the two pieces from the introduction to Brownell's American Prose Masters, "For the Higher Study of American Literature" and "W. C. Brownell"; to the Bookman for "American Style" and "The Disraelian Irony"; to the New York Times for "The Apology for Essayists of the Press" and "Brander Matthews and the Mohawks"; to Harcourt, Brace and Co. for "The Significance of Sinclair Lewis"; to the Literary Review for "Where There Are No Rotarians," "Mr. Tarkington on the Midland Personality," and "A Note on Gertrude Stein"; to the New York Tribune for "Oscar S. Straus"; to the New York Evening Post for "Samuel Butler"; and to Boni and Liveright for the "George Sand and Gustave Flaubert," from Mrs. Mackenzie's translation of the Sand-Flaubert correspondence.