The Taste of Honey _is a genuine diary, of somewhat the same kind as_ De Vigny’s Journal d’un Poète, _or_ Diary of a Kentish Gentleman, _in that it was not written for public approval, but for personal pleasure. It is not dated nor arranged in order, partly because it was jotted down upon loose leaves which were threaded upon a string; partly because of the period of years covered and the vicissitudes that befall perishable substances such as paper._ _Part was written at the age of sixteen, eighteen; part recently. Many pages have been lost; indeed as recently as the spring of 1928 a manuscript of over three hundred pages disappeared from the office of a New York magazine. Some notes from t…
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