Note 1 — I
Reading edition
Léon Tolstoi: Vie et Œuvres. Mémoires par P. Birukov. Traduction Française, Tome III, p. 177.
[2] Through the kindness of Messrs. Henry Holt and Co., I have had the privilege of reading this novel in proof sheets.
[3] See Appendix.
[4] In the original the title is "In God's Ways."
[5] His name does not appear in standard English biographical dictionaries or literary reference books for 1893 or 1894.
[6] See an interesting article in the Outlook for 3 August, 1901, A Visit to Sienkiewicz, by L. E. Van Norman.
[7] One of the most grotesque and laughable burlesques ever seen on the American stage was the travesty of Quo Vadis, with the heroine Lithia, who drew a lobster on the sand: the strong man, Zero, wrenched the neck off a wild borax.
[8] See Mr. Van Norman's article.
[9] It would be well for Sienkiewicz (and others) to read the brilliant essay that appeared, "by another hand," in the First Series of Mr. Birrell's Obiter Dicta.
[10] Taken here and there from his essay on Zola.
[11] Sent to me by Dr. Glabisz.
[12] A year or two ago I asked one of the foremost English dramatists, one of the foremost English novelists, and one of the foremost English critics, men whose names are known everywhere in America, if they had read Bob; not one of them had ever heard of the book.
[13] One may fairly class with this literature the remarkable speech on dogs delivered in his youth in a courtroom by the late Senator Vest. The speech won the case against the evidence.
[14] It is interesting to remember that the crippled poet, W. E. Henley, was the original of Silver. Writing to Henley, May, 1883, Stevenson said, "I will now make a confession. It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot John Silver."
[15] A curious and ironical book, Dingley, by Tharaud.
[16] I have not discussed a new collection of Mr. Kipling's stories, called Abaft the Funnel, consisting of reprints of early fugitive pieces; because there is not the slightest indication that this book is in any way authorised, or that its publication has the approval of the man who wrote it. Perhaps an authorised edition of it may now become necessary.
[17] The English Novel, Chapter VI.
[18] A writer in the Atlantic Monthly notes especially the closing paragraph of Chapter XXVIII, and parts of Chapter XXIX.