INTRODUCTION BY H.G. WELLS
"'But do I see afore me, him as I ever sported with in his times of happy infancy? And may I—may I?'
"This May I, meant might he shake hands?"
—DICKENS, Great Expectations.
I do not know why I should be so overpoweringly reminded of the immortal, if at times impossible, Uncle Pumblechook, when I sit down to write a short preface to Mr. Swinnerton's Nocturne. Jests come at times out of the backwoods of a...
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