Publisher's Synopsis
Book Excerpt: s de Gaul. The authorhas been frequently asked if such and such incidents were real, --if hehad ever met such and such characters. To this he must return the oneanswer, that in only a single instance was he conscious of drawingpurely from his imagination and fancy for a character and a logicalsuccession of incidents drawn therefrom. A few weeks after his storywas published, he received a letter, authentically signed, correctingsome of the minor details of his facts (!), and enclosing ascorroborative evidence a slip from an old newspaper, wherein the mainincident of his supposed fanciful creation was recorded with alargeness of statement that far transcended his powers of imagination.He has been repeatedly cautioned, kindly and unkindly, intelligentlyand unintelligently, against his alleged tendency to confuserecognized standards of morality by extenuating lives of recklessness, and often criminality, with a single solitary virtue. He might easilyshow that he has never written a sermoRead Mo
