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Title: Immortal Memories

Author: Clement Shorter

Release Date: June 19, 2007 [eBook #21869]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1907 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

IMMORTAL MEMORIES

By
CLEMENT SHORTER

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON MCMVII

_Butler and Tanner_, _The Selwood Printing Works_, _Frome_, _and London_.

PREFATORY

The following addresses were delivered at the request of various literary
societies and commemorative committees. They amused me to write, and
they apparently interested the audiences for which they were primarily
intended. Perhaps they do not bear an appearance in print. But they are
not for my brother-journalists to read nor for the judicious men of
letters. I prefer to think that they are intended solely for those whom
Hazlitt styled "sensible people." Hazlitt said that "the most sensible
people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world." I
am hoping that these will buy my book and that some of them will like it.

It is recorded by Sir Henry Taylor of Samuel Rogers that when he wrote
that very indifferent poem, _Italy_, he said, "I will make people buy.
Turner shall illustrate my verse." It is of no importance that the
biographer of Rogers tells us that the poet first made the artist known
to the world by these illustrations. Taylor's story is a good one, and
the moral worth taking to heart. The late Lord Acton, most learned and
most accomplished of men, wrote out a list of the hundred best books as
he considered them to be. They were printed in a popular magazine. They
naturally excited much interest. I have rescued them from the pages of
the _Pall Mall Magazine_. Those who will not buy my book for its seven
other essays may do so on account of Lord Acton's list of books being
here first preserved "between boards." I shall be equally well pleased.

CLEMENT SHORTER.

GREAT MISSENDEN,
BUCKS.

I. TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF DR. SAM