Excerpt from The Life Around Us: A Collection of Stories

The stories in this collection were written at various times during the last ten years. They were printed in The Catholic Record, an excellent magazine, since suspended; The Catholic World; the New York Freeman"s Journal, and other periodicals of high character. They are as various as the years in which they were written. The author"s only object was to utilize the experience in story-writing gained by years of constant anonymous contributions to secular publications, in a series of stories made by a Catholic for Catholics.

He regrets that, except in one story - "A Measureless Ill" - he has not come up to his own standard.

He regrets, too, that it is impossible for him to supply a conclusion to every story that would satisfy all his past and future readers. He feels the "long felt want" of a patent adaptable ending that would fit any story without being incongruous.

He has been warned that the good Sisters (from many of whom he has received requests to make this collection) would not like the stories that end with marriages.

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