pathetic
little introduction by Mr. WARD MUIR under what conditions of a brave but
losing battle with ill-health this delicate and vivacious work was written.
When I say that these recollections (which I decline to call by any word
implying more artifice) illustrate their author, I give you their measure
for honesty and charm combined. Honesty first of all; Mr. SMITH'S young
barbarians running wild and, one conjectures, rapidly reducing their elders
to a like condition, have the compelling effect of unsentimental truth. Few
clouds of glory, for example, trail about the protagonists of "A Day," a
tribute to the joyous intoxication of a day-long orgie of naughtiness
deliberate and wholly unrepented. You will find much in these pages to
waken half-forgotten and perhaps secret pleasures. Thus there was for
me a personal echo in the rejection as a seaside entertainment of
castle-building and the ordered sequence of the tides in favour of the
infinitely more variable delight of running water and a sufficiency of mud.
Perhaps I have said enough to suggest the charm of an engaging volume,
itself a memorial of one whose kindly laughter will be missed by many.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Young Alf._ "CHUCK IT, JIMMY. 'E AIN'T GOT A KIND FACE."]

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