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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell 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: Collections and Recollections Author: George William Erskine Russell Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11665] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS *** Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Wilelmina Malliere and PG Distributed Proofreaders COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS George William Erskine Russell THE MOST GENIAL OF COMPANIONS JAMES PAYN AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THESE PAPERS WERE WRITTEN AND TO WHOM THEY WERE INSCRIBED DIED MARCH 25, 1898 * * * * * Is he gone to a land of no laughter-- This man that made mirth for us all? Proves Death but a silence hereafter, Where the echoes of earth cannot fall? Once closed, have the lips no more duty? No more pleasure the exquisite ears? Has the heart done o'erflowing with beauty, As the eyes have with tears? Nay, if aught be sure, what can be surer Than that earth's good decays not with earth? And of all the heart's springs none are purer Than the springs of the fountains of mirth? He that sounds them has pierced the heart's hollows, The places where tears are and sleep; For the foam-flakes that dance in life's shallows Are wrung from life's deep. J. RHOADES PREFACE. It has been suggested by Mr. Reginald Smith, to whose friendliness and skill the fortunes of this book have been so greatly indebted, that a rather fuller preface might be suitably prefixed to this Edition. When the book first appeared, it was stated on the title-page to be written "by One who has kept a Diary." My claim to that modest title will scarcely be challenged by even the most carping critic who is conversant with the facts. On August 13, 1865, being then twelve years old, I began my Diary. Several attempts at diary-keeping I had already made and abandoned. This more serious endeavour was due to the fact that a young lady gave me a manuscript-book attractively bound in scarlet leather; and such a gift ins
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