Transcriber’s Notes:
The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the exceptionof apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.
In the original, the Table of Contents does not contain the entries to Chapters XI, XII, and XIII.However, in the electronic version, they have been added.
Some eight of these papers appear inprint for the first time. For thosewhich have been published before, mythanks are due to the Editors of “TheOnlooker” and “The Ladies’ Field”for permission to reprint.
THE AUTHOR.
Copyright, 1910, by
E. Temple Thurston
Published February 1911
My Dear Norman,
Here are my Patchwork Papers foryou to unpick at your leisure. I havenot presumed to call them essays, sinceit is nowadays unseemly for a novelistto attempt anything worthy of the nameof letters—moreover, would any oneread them? By the same token, I havenot dared to call them short stories, andthat, mainly because the so-called essentiallove interest is conspicuous by itsabsence. Really they are illustratedessays. What better name then thanpapers can be given them?
It may, for example, be pardonable ina paper to split an infinitive for the sakeof euphony, as I have done in “Frommy Portfolio,”—but to split an infinitivein an essay! It were better torob a church, or speak out one’s mindabout the monarchy. All such things[viii]< BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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