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16 FOREWORD reading ; I can say no more for them and I shall hold him generous who says as much. But the pleasure I shall derive from seeing them printed and off my hands will be as great almost as that which I felt when, four years ago, you, or your firm rather, did me the honour of publishing a book to which I attached, and continue to attach, a good deal of importance. Here I am harvesting my wild oats ; and that deed done, I expect to feel what a regular but rather humdrum sinner must feel as he returns from Confession. Quit of my past, I shall be ready to turn over a new leaf. I shall be able, if I please, to approach life from a new angle and try my luck in unexplored countries, so far, that is, as the European situation permits. February 1918. C. B.
MONTAIGNE IN FACSIMILE 1 LET it be understood at once that the appearance of this magnificent work is a bibliophilic ^ an ' I9 *3 rather than a literary event. The literary event was the publication by M. Fortunat Strowski, in 1909, of " L'Edition Municipale," an exact transcription of that annotated copy of the 1588 quarto known to fame as " L'Ex- de Bordeaux." What the same emplaire eminent scholar gives us now is a reproduction in phototype of " L'Exemplaire." Any one, therefore, who goes to these volumes in search of literary discoveries is foredoomed to dis- appointment. Indeed, the same might have been said of " L'Edition " Municipale for the ; " " Motheau et Jouaust edition, reprinted by MM. Flammarion " in their Bibliotheque classique," was complete enough to satisfy all but the most meticulous scholars, while for general literary purposes the edition published 1 " Reproduction en Phototypie de 1'Exemplaire, avec Notes manuscrites marginales, des Essais de Montaigne appartenant a la Ville de Bordeaux." PubliSe, avec une Introduction, par Fortunat Strowski. 3 vols. (Paris, Hachette.) '7 B
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- Page 35 and 36: MONTAIGNE 23 moral code and the met
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- Page 71 and 72: PEACOCK 59 Peacock's attitude towar
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16 FOREWORD<br />
reading ; I can say no more for them and I<br />
shall hold him generous who says as much.<br />
But the pleasure I shall derive from seeing<br />
them printed and off my hands will be as great<br />
almost as that which I felt when, four years<br />
ago, you, or your firm rather, did me the<br />
honour of publishing a book to which I<br />
attached, and continue to attach, a good deal<br />
of importance. Here I am harvesting my<br />
wild oats ; and that deed done, I expect to<br />
feel what a regular but rather humdrum sinner<br />
must feel as he returns from Confession.<br />
Quit of my past, I shall be ready to turn over<br />
a new leaf. I shall be able, if I please, to<br />
approach life from a new angle and try my<br />
luck in unexplored countries, so far, that is,<br />
as the European situation permits.<br />
February 1918.<br />
C. B.
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