The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

Transcribed from the 1912 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

The Note-Books of
Samuel Butler

Author of “Erewhon”

Selections arranged and edited by
Henry Festing Jones

With photogravure portrait by Emery Walker from a
photograph taken by Alfred Cathie in 1898

London
A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford’s Inn, E.C.
1912

WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH

Preface

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason for making them: