The Initials: A Story of Modern Life

A Story of Modern Life
By
THE BARONESS TAUTPHŒUS
AUTHOR OF “QUITS,” “AT ODDS,” ETC.
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1. Placed at the beginning.
2. Incipient; not complete.—Johnson’s Dictionary .
Initial, ale. adj. Il se dit des lettres, des syllables qui commencent un mot. En termes de calligraphie et d’imprimerie, on appelle plus particulièrement lettre initiale , la lettre qui commence un livre, un chapitre, etc.
Il s’emploie aussi substantivement, au feminin, pour lettre initiale. Il n’a signé ce billet que de l’initiale de son nom, que de son initiale. Dans ce manuscrit, les initiales sont en rouge. — Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française.
I think these quotations authorise me to call the following pages “The Initials.” According to Dr. Johnson, they would be intended to be “placed at the beginning;” would be “incipient; not complete.” It is the public who have now to decide whether what has been placed at the beginning is to have a continuation, whether what is incipient, and not complete, is to be formed and completed.