Excerpt from The Prose of Edward Rowland Sill It is largely from the Contributors' Club that the contents of this book are derived. That is to say, the greater number Of papers is drawn from it; the longer ones are sometimes from Tee Atlantic, sometimes from papers printed on the Pacific coast, and sometimes from papers read but not printed. The division under different headings is intended merely to classify rudely the mass of his prose writing. The distinctions between the parts must not be looked for too narrowly. Sill was so ver satile and his mind ran so readily from one aspect of a subject to another, that it would be idle to ask for any very hard and fast division, but the grouping will serve to Show something of the range which his mind took. N o attempt has been made to indicate the sources Of the several papers, nor to arrange the contents in any exact chronological order. These things are of little consequence in the case of so free a giver as Sill. One might nearly as well expect to date and locate a good talker's con versation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.