NOTE 



1 OT long ago I published a volume 

 containing some scraps from my 

 old workshop under the title of 

 " AFTER WORK." That book was 

 most kindly and indulgently received; it referred 

 mostly to my WORKING CAREER. A very large 

 edition was rapidly sold, and it is now out of print. 

 During the last twenty years of my life, at 

 least, it has become a habit of mine to spend 

 my PLAY-TIME mostly by the side of some far- 

 away pleasant stream where 



" I fished for pleasure and I caught it." 



The stories of my holiday rambles between 

 1884 and 1903 are told successively in eight con- 

 secutive small volumes, published at intervals; 

 I also published the two following volumes 

 which are not holiday books: "Sketches of 

 Booksellers of Other Days," published in 1901, 

 and " Sketches of some Booksellers of the time 

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