The author's note:
I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of
the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently)
reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct
reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was
clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake
of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought
I need not exclude all such topical remarks as in them too were
uttered, nor throw into a past tense such of those remarks as I have
retained. Perhaps a book of essays ought to seem as if it had been
written a few days before publication. On the other hand--but this is
a Note, not a Preface.
M.B.
Rapallo, 1920.
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