CONTENTS
[Note]
[PREFACE]
[I]
[II]
[III]
[IV]
[EPILOGUE]
[BOOKS BY ARTHUR MACHEN]
Note
One of the schoolmasters in "The Secret Glory" has views on the subject of football similar to those entertained by a well-known schoolmaster whose Biography appeared many years ago. That is the only link between the villain of invention and the good man of real life.
PREFACE
Some years ago I met my old master, Sir Frank Benson—he was Mr. F. R. Benson then—and he asked me in his friendly way what I had been doing lately.
"I am just finishing a book," I replied, "a book that everybody will hate."
"As usual," said the Don Quixote of our English stage—if I knew any nobler title to bestow upon him, I would, bestow it—"as usual; running your head against a stone wall!"