An Editor's Retrospect

Excerpt taken from the Preface: Genuine autobiographies have a peculiar charm. They are the most original of all writings. Many books are made of books-the hashed meats of previous. feasts. Only a few add to the stock of information. The little streams gushing from the hill-sides collect into the brooks and make the rivers. Without the lives of individ�uals there could be no history of nations, religions, wars. This book has sprung from a desire on the part of the writer to express his views about men and their actions, so miscellaneous that they could not be embodied in essays, lectures, reviews, or any other form than the one chosen.

• ISBN-13: 9781598388374
• 448 pages
• Paperback : 6 x 9 inches