[Gutenberg 49479] • That House I Bought: A little leaf from life

Excerpt from That House I Bought: A Little Leaf From Life

Why a dedication? Why a preface - a foreword? Why any comment, save the title and the price mark?

Simplicity itself! The preface, foreword, dedication - what you may term it - gives opportunity to apologize for the liberality with which the author betrays his egotism, in the thickly sprinkled perpendicular pronoun.

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