Why Mary Lamb preserved such strict anonymity we do not now know; but it was probably from a natural shrinking from any kind of publicity after the unhappy publicity which she had once gained by her misfortune.

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This anonymity Eachard carefully preserved during the controversies which it occasioned.

Poor lion, who thought he had secured anonymity for his holiday!

And whatever may be thought of some of his opinions on matters of detailon anonymity, for instance, or on the question whether good work is never done for moneythere can be no doubt that his general view of literature, and the conditions under which it flourishes, is perfectly sound.

In any case, however, the freedom of the press should be governed by a very strict prohibition of all and every anonymity.

Instead of adopting some such expedient Mrs. Haywood found it more convenient simply to lapse into anonymity.

These five or six determined ruffians formed a kind of Blood Brotherhood, and behind a veil of anonymity issued mandates to, and in the name of, the Russian workmen, which, backed up by a system of murderous terrorism, the workmen were powerless to resist.

All these were French, but just at the edge of the thick timber was a heapone could scarcely say of Germans, so utterly did the gray, sodden faces and sodden, gray uniforms merge into anonymity.

The greater number are Frenchmen, droves of those long blue turned-back overcoats and red trousers, flowing sluggishly between the rows of low barracks, Frenchmen of every sort of training and temperament, swept here like dust by the war into common anonymity.

My pen was busy, and a second pamphlet, dealing with the Johannine gospel, was written and sent up to Mr. Scott under the same conditions of anonymity as before, for it was seen that my authorship could in nowise be suspected, and Mr. Scott paid me for my work.

AND SCOTLAND THOUGHTS AROUND KOEPENICK THE BOY LIMERICKS AND COUNSELS OF PERFECTION ANONYMITY AND FURTHER COUNSELS ON THE CRYPTIC AND THE ELLIPTIC THE WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Those who urge the advantages of anonymity are either people who do not realise the special peril of our time or they are people who are profiting by it.

ANONYMITY AND FURTHER COUNSELS The end of the article which I write is always cut off, and, unfortunately, I belong to that lower class of animals in whom the tail is important.

And anonymity ought to be not only an exception, but an accidental exception; a man ought always to be ready to say what anonymous article he had written.

As has often been said, anonymity would be all very well if one could for a moment imagine that it was established from good motives.

He was wont to say, "Should the secret be found out, Fiona dies," and in a letter to Mrs. Thomas A. Janviershe and her husband being among the earliest confidants of his secrethe makes this interesting statement: "I can write out of my heart in a way I could not do as William Sharp, and indeed I could not do so if I were the woman Fiona Macleod is supposed to be, unless veiled in scrupulous anonymity....

What are the different recommendations of the rival systems of anonymity and signature?

As far as honesty goes, signature perhaps offers as many inducements to one kind of insincerity, as anonymity offers to another kind.

Our practice has been signature as the standing rule, occasionally suspended in favour of anonymity when there seemed to be sufficient reason.

Some men write best when they sign what they write; they find impersonality a mystification and an incumbrance; anonymity makes them stiff, pompous, and over-magisterial.

There was a silly cry at one time for making the disuse of anonymity compulsory by law.

This is according to the custom of anonymity.

This address is the one rift in the blank wall of anonymity which hides the individuality of the millions under Joffre.

It is the anonymity of the struggle that makes it all seem distant and unrealtill the telegram comes from the War Office to say that the one among the millions who is dear to you is dead or wounded.