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at intervals during the last three weeks of
the college session. I would do a few
sentences in the morning while waiting for
breakfast, a few more at the Union, and
more at night in the intervals of my
college work. This, I think, partly accounts
for the absence of the "swing of narrative
and the increasing progress of drama".
The book would have been better if it had
been written in a few sittings.

I had a very successful interview with
publishers in London. My book of essays is coming
out in February. It is to be beautifully illustrated
and Macmillan are to issue it in America.
I have got very good terms for it. My fishing