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Abandoning this barren task I then began to dig in the gardens of other men's minds: this book is the result. All I have sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained from desultory reading of all kinds during the last few years, to those who take the trouble to turn these pages the art of criticism is not mine. I have not obtruded my own personality more than was abso lately necessary. I have merely walked about pro lific Vineyards and orchards and plucked a cluster of grapes here, a plum there, to entice you to share some of my golden pleasures. That I have missed some of the best Will be obvious to any one who looks at the chapter-headings that I have included much unripe and indigestible, or over - ripe and putrid fruit I beg leave to deny. There was so much that was very good that I could have filled another volume with ease. Some of these essays 'have already appeared in print. For permission to include them in this volume I wish to thank the editors of The.
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