The Bed-Book of Happiness / Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired

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Being a Colligation or Assemblage of Cheerful Writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired, by
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If, in my pages, those who suffer find Such cheer as warms your heart and lights your mind, Glad shall I be, but gladder, prouder too, If this my book become a friend like you .
To Mr. Austin Dobson and his publishers, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
To Mr. R.A. Streatfeild, Mr. Henry Festing Jones, and Mr. A.C. Fifield, the publisher, for permission to make use of The Note Books of Samuel Butler.
To Mr. W. Aldis Wright and Messrs. Macmillan for my quotations from The Letters of Edward FitzGerald.
To Mr. E.I. Carlyle, author of The Life of William Cobbett.
To Sir Herbert Stephen and Messrs. Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge for permission to include verses from the Lapsus Calami of J.K. Stephen.
To Mrs. Hole, Mr. G.A.B. Dewar, and Messrs. George Allen & Co., for my quotations from Mr. Dewar's The Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole.
To Messrs. Chatto & Windus for my extracts from the Works of Mark Twain.