My Log
Robert Barrie
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 11, 2019)
Excerpt from My LogI have tried, in the midst of a busy life, to do what I wished they had done. And I have found that although, as the wise old Romans put it, Dulce est memz'm'sse, it is not easy to write the plainest log of the simplest life. I think that most readers, if they read through these pages, will feel in sympathy with Emerson, who, in his essay on Shakespeare, hits the nail very cleverly on the head when he says, we tell the chronicle of a man's parentage, birth, birthplace, schoolmates, earning money, marriage, publi cation of books, celebrity, and death, and when we have come to the end of this gossip we know as little of the real person as before. I offer this as an apology for all the defects of my little book, for it shows how really difficult the thing is.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.