This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...queries are asked for, and should be sent on separate slips of paper, with the number of the query clearly written at the top. No coupon need be attached to answers. IY DEAR SCRIBBLERS, --I am going to let you into a secret! For the last five months I have been so seriously ill with appendicitis that these pages have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...queries are asked for, and should be sent on separate slips of paper, with the number of the query clearly written at the top. No coupon need be attached to answers. IY DEAR SCRIBBLERS, --I am going to let you into a secret! For the last five months I have been so seriously ill with appendicitis that these pages have been kindly conducted by a lady friend of mine. At first I was able to superintend the work, but after the operation, which I underwent in October, it was impossible for me to do anything. It is not without emotion that I now begin to write this chat to you, as for many days my life was given up, and for weeks--nay, months--I thought I should never again write for the Press. The friend who has been, acting as " Experta" is a very well-known novelist, and though I see she has not spared your feelings, you ought to be glad to have had the chance of seeking her criticism. To her personally, of course, I am greatly indebted, and I am sure I may say "Thank you " to her in your name. Now I am on the road to complete recovery, and your bright letters will help me to forget that I have ever passed through such a terrible experience as that which lies behind me. But enough of myself, though I am sufficiently vain to believe that you care for "Experta" enough to be interested, whilst on my side you are all so very much my friends that I felt in duty bound to tell you exactly what had happened. Good Endings. The " incidents," on the whole, were excellent, many of you having caught the dramatic spirit which is necessary to the narration of an actual fact in real life. The endings were particularly good, and this pleased me greatly, for an immense amount of power can be shown in the closing sentences of a MS. Generally...
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