Excerpt from The Best I Remember Was the possession, close at my hand, of a capacious notebook at a moment when, in ill health and weariness of spirit, I needed an indoor recreation to lay a ghost. My first thought was to jot down a few random recollec tions of the best things I could remember, but the jottings grew - as Mr. Rudyard Kipling says his first poems grew - unmanneredly, till the first capacious notebook was filled, while memories stored up during thirty-three years of London journalism - especially religious ...
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Excerpt from The Best I Remember Was the possession, close at my hand, of a capacious notebook at a moment when, in ill health and weariness of spirit, I needed an indoor recreation to lay a ghost. My first thought was to jot down a few random recollec tions of the best things I could remember, but the jottings grew - as Mr. Rudyard Kipling says his first poems grew - unmanneredly, till the first capacious notebook was filled, while memories stored up during thirty-three years of London journalism - especially religious journalism - still crowded in. Other capacious notebooks followed and were filled. Then it seemed possible that these reminis cences, so artlessly garnered, might be made into a book to be published in all modesty, and not without a sense of dread lest aught written here might be thought to have been set down in malice. It is the nature of recollections to be indiscreet but indiscre'tions may be neither malicious nor mischievous, especially if they concern things said and done in years that have passed into history. I cherish a 'hope that I have no enemies (since there is no man I regard as my enemy), and devoutly I wish that this book shall make me none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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