Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911

By: Bennett, Arnold

The contents of this book have been chosen from a se-ries of weekly articles which enlivened the New Age dur-ing the years 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911, under the pseu-donym "Jacob Tonson." The man responsible for the re-publication is the dedicatee, who, having mysteriously demanded from me back numbers of the New Age, sat in my house one Sunday afternoon and in four hours read through the entire series. He then announced that he had made a judicious selection, and that the selection must positively be issued in volume form. Mr. Frank Swinner-ton approved the selection and added to it slightly. In my turn I suggested a few more additions. The total amounts to one-third of the original matter. Beyond correcting misprints, softening the crudity of several epithets, and censoring lines here and there which might give offence without helping the sacred cause, I have not altered the articles. They appear as they were journalistically written in Paris, London, Switzerland, and the Forest of Fon-tainebleau. In particular I have left the critical judgments alone, for the good reason that I stand by nearly all of them, though perhaps with a less challenging vivacity, to this day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RKLRVL1
• ISBN13: 9798588045254
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"