THE GENTLEST ART A Choice of Letters by EDITED BY E. V. LUCAS AUTHOR OF "A WANDERER IN HOLLAND," ETC., ETC. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1907 All rights reserved 11443, 21.9 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Mrs. Harold Vanderbilt COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1907. Norwood Press As keys do open chests, James Howell I quite agree with you as to the horrors of correspondence. Correspondences are like small-clothes before the invention of suspenders: it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith Pray do write to me: a few lines soon are better than a three-decker a month hence. Edward Fitz Gerald |