Portraits and Speculations

by Arthur Ransome

PORTRAITS
AND
SPECULATIONS

BY
ARTHUR RANSOME

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1913

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Copyright

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TO
JOHN MASEFIELD

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NOTE

Of the Essays in this book, “Art for Life’s Sake” appeared in The English Review; “The Poetry of Yone Noguchi,”[1] “Remy de Gourmont,” and “Aloysius Bertrand” in The Fortnightly Review; “Kinetic and Potential Speech,” in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The papers on Daudet and Coppée were prefixed to collections of stories by these writers: I thank the publishers, Messrs. T. C. and E. C. Jack, for permission to reproduce them here.