YOUNG EARNEST
THE ROMANCE OF A
BAD START IN LIFE
BY
GILBERT CANNAN
Author of “Old Mole,” “Round the Corner.”
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1915
Now my question is: have you a scheme of life consonant with the spirit of modern philosophy—with the views of intelligent, moral, humane human beings of this period?
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND.
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
To
O. M.
Words skilled and woven do not make a book
Except some truth in beauty shine in it.
I bring you this because you overlook
My faults to follow out my probing wit.
And where it fails or falls short of its aim,
You see design and waste nor praise nor blame
On the achievement. Stirring to the will,
Your wit still urges mine to greater skill.