Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, 1921- To Arthur Burdette Frost : MY DEAR FROST: I am expected to supply a preface for this new edition of my first book-to advance from behind the curtain, as it were, and make a fresh bow to the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in so gentle and generous a fashion. For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book. There have been other editions-how many I do not remember but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter : new type, new pictures, and new binding. But, as frequently happens on such occasions, I am at a loss for a word. I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children-some young and fresh, and some wearing the friendly marks of age, but all children at heart-and not an unfriendly face among them.