Front matter
Reading edition
BY
SIDNEY McCALL
AUTHOR OF "TRUTH DEXTER"
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1905,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published May, 1905
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
BECAUSE OF FAITH AND REVERENCE,
AND IN SPITE OF ERRORS WHICH I KNOW TO BE
INEVITABLE,
I DARE INSCRIBE THIS BOOK TO
YAMATO DAMASHII
PREFATORY NOTE
No character in this book, belonging either to public or private life, is taken as a whole or in part from any person. The characters are wholly imaginary, and no incident is based on any real incident known to the writer. Even in the descriptions of official buildings, memory is laxly used. In the genre studies alone is realism attempted. Most, if not all, of the questions, remarks, and speculations put into the mouths of peasants and servants have been overheard by the writer.
THE BREATH OF THE GODS