Excerpt from Wiltshire Essays

I am not able to conceive of anything, at first sight, more uninteresting than discourse upon such a subject, but if it can be done anywhere, where so well as in an essay; for what arc essays but oneself written at length, oneself draped about some fortuitous peg? Where, then, better than in the preface to a volume of them i On the threshold of oneself what can more usefully engage the visitor than initiatory disquisition i A grace before self; for what one is about to receive ! Moreover, as it so happens that in the course of the last thirty years I have done a variety of things and received upon them every variety of comment, except my own, it may be that the time has come for my contribution to be put in. I can raise some curious points; and a reviewer in the New Statesman of the other day (15th January, 1921) gives me the opportunity. Upon his peg then will I hang my egotistical drapery, and over those whom he designates will I cast my shoe.

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