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SOME IMPRESSIONS
OF MY ELDERS
BY
ST. JOHN G. ERVINE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
All Rights Reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1920 and 1921,
By NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW CORPORATION
Copyright, 1922,
By ST. JOHN G. ERVINE
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Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1922
VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
TO
ELIZABETH CUTTING
who would not give me any peace until I had overcome my idle habitsand written all these impressions of my elders for the North AmericanReview.
CONTENTS
| THE AUTHOR TO HIS READERS | 3 |
| A. E. (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) | 25 |
| ARNOLD BENNETT | 61 |
| G. K. CHESTERTON | 90 |
| JOHN GALSWORTHY | 113 |
| GEORGE MOORE | 161 |
| BERNARD SHAW | 189 |
| H. G. WELLS | 240 |
| W. B. YEATS | 264 |
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF MY ELDERS
THE AUTHOR TO HIS READERS
The matter which appears in the following pages was originallycontributed, in the shape of a series of articles under the generaltitle of "Some Impressions of My Elders," to the North AmericanReview at intervals during the years 1920 and 1921. The order in whichthe articles appear in this book is different from the order in whichthey appeared in the Review: this order is alphabetical whereasthat was capricious. Some excisions and some additions have been madeto them and I hope that I have evaded the danger which besets all thosewho reprint their journalism in book form, the danger of repetitions.Why I reprint them at all is a point on which I am not able to offerconclusive explanations. I have reached that period of my life whenmy wish is rather not to write a book than to write one, and I havelost all the cheery conceit which caused me in[Pg 4]...