“In a time when so many literary counsellors are drawing attention to the freakish, the rebellious writers, and to the ones who would pioneer new styles and methods it is refreshing to have at hand a book that speaks lovingly for the art of letters, the whole art, and for the individual and unbiased appreciation. “... The book is a most acceptable library companion. There’s no pretense and no posing in all of its pages.”--_Oakland Tribune_, July 10, 1921. G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Page 139: “way-born” should be “way-worn”.