Journeys to Bagdad

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BY CHARLES S. BROOKS
ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS BY ALLEN LEWIS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT
M D CCCC XV
Copyright, 1915, by Yale University Press
First printed November, 1915, 1000 copies
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
The Yale University Press makes grateful acknowledgment to the Editors of the Yale Review and of the New Republic for permission to include in the present work essays of which they were the original publishers.
CHAPTER
Are you of that elect who, at certain seasons of the year—perhaps in March when there is timid promise of the spring or in the days of October when there are winds across the earth and gorgeous panic of fallen leaves—are you of that elect who, on such occasion or any occasion else, feel stirrings in you to be quit of whatever prosy work is yours, to throw down your book or ledger, or your measuring tape—if such device marks your service—and to go forth into the world?