PREFACE Vil 
For my digressions, etc.—for which I have been 
taken to task—I. hope this fresh crop of them will 
make it apparent that they are a part of my method, 
or, rather, a part of myself. I have still a tempera- 
ment I find—and it gives me a good deal of trouble 
—but as soon as I have become a nonentity, I will 
follow the advice given me, and write like one. I 
would say more if I could, but I must not promise 
what it is not in my power to perform. 
EDMUND SELOUS 
