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Project Gutenberg's Fragments of an Autobiography, by Felix Moscheles 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.org Title: Fragments of an Autobiography Author: Felix Moscheles Release Date: July 16, 2010 [EBook #33185] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRAGMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY *** Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Internet Archive.) Fragments of an Autobiography DEDICATED TO MY WIFE [Illustration: Charlotte Moscheles] Fragments of an Autobiography BY FELIX MOSCHELES AUTHOR OF "IN BOHEMIA WITH DU MAURIER," ETC. London JAMES NISBET & CO., LTD. 21 BERNERS STREET 1899 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press PREFACE I have often found it hard to read a preface; much harder do I find it to-day to write one. If I do so, it is because it gives me an opportunity of owning that I have strung these my reminiscences together most unceremoniously and unsystematically. They are to be taken only as "Fragments of an Autobiography," very much on the same lines as the first volume which recorded my adventures in Bohemia with Du Maurier. If the reader, thus duly forewarned, elects to follow me over the uneven road, he will, I trust, not mind a little jolting. If, however, he judges that the gaps and omissions in my life-story are unjustifiable, he must not be surprised should I attempt to set things right in a third volume. I should be all the more inclined to do so as there are some other fragments and segments waiting to be pieced together which are connected with the brightest days of my life. The writing of the present chapters has often been a source of genuine pleasure to me, for I say with Bolingbroke in _Richard II_.: "I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends." And now that I have come to a full stop, I am left in that pleasant frame of mind in which I would fain believe in the proverbial kindness of the reader--that deity from times immemorial appealed to by the preface-writer,--a frame of
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