One word about his character: I sometimes think of my friend the
ex-thief as "Light-fingered Jim"; and in that name there lingers a note
of vague apology. As he told his story to me, I saw everywhere the mark
of the natural rogue, of the man grown with a roguish boy's brain.
The humor of much of his tale seemed to me strong. I was never able
to look upon him as a deliberate malefactor. He constantly impressed
me as gentle and imaginative, impressionable and easily influenced,
but not naturally vicious or vindictive. If I am right, his reform is
nothing more or less than the coming to years of sober maturity. He is
now thirty-five years old, and as he himself puts it: "Some men acquire
wisdom at twenty-one, others at thirty-five, and some never."
EVERYMAN
The XVth Century morality play, with reproductions of old wood cuts.
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"In typography, in paper and in make-up the edition is admirable. It is
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_The Sun, New York._
"The best of the old moralities, easy to read and fair to look upon."
_Evening Post, New York._
"The book is well done, and should find a place on the shelves and in
the spirits of all who care for the best in life and art."
JOHN CORBIN, in
_The New York Times_.
"Everyman" in book form will be welcomed by the large number of people
whose attention has been called to this ancient morality play by its
admirable presentation in different cities."
_The Outlook, New York._
"The first publication of (the new house) "Everyman," the fifteenth
century morality play given in Boston this winter, is of artistic
design and of handsome, agreeable type. The old woodcuts are reproduced
from the first ancient edition of the play."
_Boston Journal._
NEW YORK
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY,
36 East 21st Street.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Autobiography of a Thief, by Hutchins Hapgood
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