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Adventures in Criticism, by Sir Arthur Thomas
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Title: Adventures in Criticism
Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Release Date: January 3, 2006 [eBook #17452]
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN CRITICISM
by
A. T. QUILLER-COUCH
New York Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright, 1896 Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company New York
To
A.B. WALKLEY
MY DEAR A.B.W.
The short papers which follow have been reprinted, with a few alterations, from The Speaker. Possibly you knew this without my telling you. Possibly, too, you have sat in a theatre before now and seen the curtain rise on two characters exchanging information which must have been their common property for years. So this dedication is partly designed to save me the trouble of writing a formal preface.
As I remember then, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed us by dest