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Project Gutenberg's Vanishing Roads and Other Essays, by Richard Le Gallienne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Author: Richard Le Gallienne Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11675] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VANISHING ROADS AND OTHER ESSAYS *** Produced by Janet Kegg and PG Distributed Proofreaders Vanishing Roads And Other Essays By Richard Le Gallienne 1915 TO ROBERT HOBART DAVIS DEAR BOB: It is quite a long time now since you and I first caught sight of each other and became fellow wayfarers on this Vanishing Road of the world. O quite a lot of years now, Bob! Yet I control my tendency to shiver at their number from the fact that we have travelled them, always within hailing distance of each other, I with the comfortable knowledge that near by I had so good a comrade, so true a friend. For this once, by your leave, we won't "can" the sentiment,--to use an idiom in which you are the master-artist on this continent,--but I, at least, will luxuriate in retrospect, as I write your name by way of dedication to this volume of essays, for some of which your quick-firing mind is somewhat more than editorially responsible. You were one of the first to make me welcome to a country of which, even as a boy, I used prophetically to dream as my "promised land," little knowing that it was indeed to be my home, the home of my spirit, as well as the final resting-place of my household gods; and, having you so early for my friend, is it to be wondered at if I soon came to regard the American humourist as the noblest work of God? There is yet, I trust, much left of the Vanishing Road for us to travel together; and I hope that, when the time comes for us both to vanish over the horizon line, we may exit still within hail of each other,--so that we may have a reasonable chance of hitting the trail together on the next route, whatever it is going to be. Always yours, RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. Rowayton, December 25, 1914. For their discernment in giving the following essays their first opportunity with the reader the writer desires to th
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