ΤΟ EDMUND GOSSE. MY DEAR GOSSE, 'Labuntur anni!'-which reminds me that I have never dedicated a volume of my papers to you. And yet it must be nearly a quarter of a century since we first began to interchange ideas :—a long time to have watched les étoiles qui filent'! Will you accept these Miscellanies in memory of those detached and delightful hours (between Ambition and Despair!) when we have sometimes loved Books for their own sakes, careless alike of those who wrote and those who write about them? Sincerely yours, AUSTIN DOBSON. 829793 |
