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Harvard College Library,

Robert W. Lowe Collection.
Gift of John Drew,
Feb. 5, 1902.

37.38

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PREFACE.

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HEN DAVID GARRICK had a dispute with the gentle and mysterious Junius, he was called a vagabond and told to attend to his pantomimes. He attended to his pantomimes and continued the dispute. The same remark might be hurled at me, with about the same result.

I am now a licensed dealer in legs, shortskirts, French adaptations, Shakespeare, taste and the musical glasses. I am no longer a professional writer toiling for my living, but an amateur writing when I think I have something to say. Perhaps I am mistaken; perhaps not. I regard the literary man, or the writing machine, as a barrel

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