AUTHORS' PREFACE

" "Authors' editions" of books we have long had offered us by publishers; "éditions de luxe" too; and "limited editions of fifty copies, each copy numbered."

I confess that the idea of that back room at the Authors' Club begins to grow upon me.

The artistic finish of this first tragedy is marred by the authors' evident purpose to persuade Elizabeth to marry.

[14: See Walpole's 'Royal and Noble Authors'] At Brandenburgh House, a nobler presence than that of Dodington still haunted the groves and alleys, for Prince Rupert had once owned it.

I have mingled sacra prophanis, but I hope not profaned, and in repetition of authors' names, ranked them per accidens, not according to chronology; sometimes neoterics before ancients, as my memory suggested.

Some wrote for fame, some for money; but all were agreed on one pointnamely, that if Mr. Murray would undertake the publication of the poems, the authors' fame was secured.

I'll never forget your kindness; for I cannot think that I am tainted with the general vice of authors' ingratitude; and the first house that I call at in London will be the one in Albemarle Street.

I remember Peter Pindar saying, one of the few times I ever met him, that the booksellers drank their wine in the manner of the heroes in the hall of Odin, out of authors' skulls."

It was not one of those conversations which a third person can report minutely, unless by that miracle of clairvoyance known to the readers of stories made out of authors' brains.

Him frantic Hunger wildly drives Against a thousand authors' lives: Through all the fields of Wit he flies; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin.

Resignation, not fortitude, is the authors' forte and they play upon it amazingly.

He is at this writing in America on behalf of the Authors' Society, in connection with the Canadian copyright difficulty.

In this low ebb our wares to you are shown; By you those staple authors' worth is known; For wit's a manufacture of your own.

The tragic masterpiece of Beaumont and Fletcher is The Maid's Tragedy, a powerful but repulsive play, which sheds a singular light not only upon its authors' dramatic methods, but also upon the attitude toward royalty favored by the doctrine of the divine right of kings, which grew up under the Stuarts.

But the rest of the speakers unite in condemning the extolled simplicity of the French plots, as actual barrenness, compared to the variety and copiousness of the English stage; and their authors' limiting the attention of the audience and interest of the piece to a single principal personage, is censured as poverty of imagination, when opposed to the diversification of characters exhibited in the dramatis personae of the English poets.

The vast body of Hellenic literature had perished during the Dark Age, when all the energies of the race were absorbed by the momentary struggle for survival; but about a third of the greatest authors' greatest works had been preserved, and now that the stress was relieved, the wreckage of the remainder was sedulously garnered in anthologies, abridgements, and encyclopaedias.

Reprinted from the authors' The science of life.

Abridged in the authors' own words by editors of Omnibook.

He says that the book is instructive, inasmuch as it shows the growth of its authors' collaboration.

* LOST OPPORTUNITIES.Last Tuesday week the members of the Incorporated Cain-and-Abel-Authors' Society lost a great treat when Mr. GEORGE AUGUSTUS lost a indignantly refused to take his seat "below the salt," and walked out without making the speech with which his name was associated on the toast-list.

Authors' mortifications. 56.

Single poems upon which the authors' title to fame mainly rests, familiar and dear hymns, and occasional and modern verse of value, are also grouped together under an appropriate heading, with reference in the Index whenever the poet is known.

" A lady who had arranged an authors' reading at her house succeeded in persuading her reluctant husband to stay home that evening to assist in receiving the guests.

But we hold with Pope that "The proper study of mankind is man," and that authors' pictures are bores, except as narrow frames to big incidents.