PREFATORY NOTE
My thanks are due to the Editor of the “Pall Mall Gazette” for permission to republish two of the following essays. The rest, with one exception, appeared in the “National Observer” and it is a matter of profound regret that, owing to the surcease of that paper, I can no longer ask permission of its former Editor to republish them. It would not be easy for me to repay Mr W. E. Henley the deep debt of gratitude I owe him for the literary encouragement which, in common with many others, I have always received at his hands.
T. T. G.
Kensington,
October 1897.
