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Excerpt from Max Beerbohm in Perspective
Well, I must be as obedient as possible. I will forage around for myself. I must accept the responsibility all of which, whatsoever, he eschews. I will not send proof-sheets to Mr. Beerbohm. His rejection in writing of my pr0posal in regard to a page of corrected ms. Will remind readers of the celebrity whose stock reply to requests from autograph-hunters for his signature was a (signed) refusal to supply it. But to reproduce his letter would be, perhaps, to take a mean advantage. So, the ms. Of his actual work, however legitimately interesting, must be taken on trust. (i can assure the reader that all of it is exquisitely neat, legible, in bulk beautiful, but that all corrections are blotted out by black impenetrable lakes of ink, so that no one shall ever know whether his second thoughts are really better than were his first.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
