Chapter I: Foreword

It is a pleasant duty to record my appreciation of the assistance rendered me in the writing of these articles by Miss Avery Strakosch (Mrs. W. K. Denham). It was she who, at the suggestion of the editors of the _Saturday Evening Post_, persuaded me to dictate the series of eight articles that appeared in the _Post_ in the first part of 1927. The ninth was published in the _Atlantic Monthly_ in October 1927.

I cannot tell how much I am indebted to her, not only for the form of the articles, but for a friendship that began with the first article and will continue, I trust, long after the last ceases to be read.

A. S. W. R.

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