Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books
I owe to you that for my sake you have overlooked the prospect of living in pomp and plenty, and I have notbeen circumspect enough to preserve you from care and sorrow.
Poor Dick Steele! He well earned the definition applied to him as a man who multiplied troubles as few men will, and bore them better than most men can.
Of modern dedications, William Ernest Henley's to his wife in that last thin sheaf of verse published before his death may well come first. Henley's was a tempestuous spirit, but his mood was rarely tender when he wrote this.
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