A. & C. Black

PREFACEArt is a hard mistress, and there is no art quite so hard as that of being a wife.So many women exhaust their artistic power in getting married, which is, after all, a comparatively easy business. It takes a perfect artist to remain married - married in the perfect sense of the term; but...

PREFACEMy dear Sir,You are neither as bad nor as good a fellow as you imagine yourself to be. No doubt you know a good deal about women, but (if you are in the early years of your married life) not nearly as much as you will in another decade. In any case I hope that, when you have read my little...

PREFACE The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent...

PREFACE The aim of these exercises is to provide the teacher with a series of tests of a modern type with which he can regularly practise and accurately assess the attainments of his class in English. The following points about them, it is hoped, are worthy of the teacher's attention: 1.Each test...

PREFACE My dear Sir, You are neither as bad nor as good a fellow as you imagine yourself to be. No doubt you know a good deal about women, but (if you are in the early years of your married life) not nearly as much as you will in another decade. In any case I hope that, when you have read my...

PREFACEThe illustrations in this book speak for themselves. The writer feels it no easy undertaking to strike bass chords in prose that may worthily accompany these high notes of Surrey's fame ; but he has done his best towards pointing out its special charm of varied formation and surface, here...