THE VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN, ESQ. MOST INDULGENT OF MASTERS AND KINDEST OF FRIENDS Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of _The Scarlet Gown_, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks. To him, indeed, success and the rewards of this world, money, and praise, did by no means seem things to be snatched at. To him success meant earning by…
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