THE MEMORY
OF
MY OLD AND DEAR COLLEGE FRIEND
ALFRED BATE RICHARDS
WHO
IN YEARS GONE BY
ACCEPTED THE DEDICATION OF THESE PAGES
FOREWORD.
‘I wanted a book on the Sword, not a treatise on Carte and Tierce,’ said the Publisher, when, some years ago, my earliest manuscript was sent to him.
It struck me then and there that the Publisher was right. Consequently the volume was re-written after a more general and less professional fashion.