FISH-TAILS, AND SOME TRUE ONES. I. Why. "I live in the world rather as a Spectator of Mankind than as one of the species. - ADDISON. "The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted."-Othello. THE object of the makers of books is generally twofold, for they desire the fruits of their genius and their labours in non-material as well as material form: fame and fortune (money and notoriety), pelf and a peerage, pennies and popularis aura-what else do romancists desire? Anonymous newspapermen have to be satisfied with less; but who can appraise their consciousness of power? |