No More Parades: A novel

by Ford Madox Ford

NO MORE
PARADES

by

FORD MADOX FORD

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers New York

by arrangement with A. & C. BONI

Copyright, 1925, By Albert y Charles Boni, Inc

To WILLIAM BIRD

MY DEAR BIRD,—

I have always held—and I hold as strongly now as ever—that a novel should have no preface. It should have no preface for æsthetico-moral reasons, and because prefatory matter takes away from the reality of, and therefore damages, a book. A dedicatory letter is a subterfuge. That subterfuge I feel forced to adopt, and must take the consequences.