When Benedick said that he would die a bachelor he did not know, as he observed later, that he would live to be married. In the same way, I have to confess that when in my preface to _Windfalls_ I hinted that it would be the last of these little books, I did not think that there would be another. Mr. Dent has convinced me of my mistake. This is the fourth collection I have made and, warned of the danger of forecasting the future, I will say no word in prejudice of a fifth. The essays, like those in the previous volumes, have appeared in _The Star_, many of them also in the _Manchester Evening News_ and some in the _Glasgow Citizen_.…
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