Excerpt from Reading I've Liked: A Personal Selection Drawn From Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing, Presented With an Informal Prologue Ad Various Commentaries D. Appleton-century Co., Inc., for their permission to quote from The Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead, Copyright, 1934, by D. Apple ton - Century Co., Inc. The bobbs-merrill Company for their per mission to quote from Abe Martin's Pump by Kin Hubbard, Copy right, 1929. Mrs. Kin Hubbard for selection of excerpts from her husband's writings. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., for permission to reprint Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter, Copyright, 1939, by Katherine Anne Porter; and to reprint two essays from Abinger Har vest by E. M. Forster, Copyright, 1936, by E. M. Forster. Brandt Bran'dt for the selection from Seven Men by Max Beerbohm, copy right, 1920, by Max Beerbohm and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; and for selections from Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Copyright, 1922, by A. E. Coppard and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, for permission to quote from F Owler's Modern English Usage. J. M. Dent Sons, Ltd., London, for permission to include W. F. Harvey's August Heat from The Midnight House. John Dos Passos and his publishers, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., for permission to reprint excerpts from u.s.a. By John Dos Passos, Copyright, 1937, by John Dos Passos. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., for permission to reprint three stories from The Mixture as Before by W. Somerset Maugham, Copy right, 1940, by W. Somerset Maugham; to reprint one chapter from Madame Curie by Eve Curie, Copyright, 1937, by doubleday, doran Co., Inc.; to reprint an essay from Rodeo by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Copyright, 1936, by Doubleday, Doran Co., Inc.; to reprint an essay from The Hogarth Essays, Copyright, 1928, by Doubleday, Doran co., inc.'harper Brothers for permission to reprint in its entirety My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber, Copyright, 1933, by James Thurber; to reprint a selection from America's Growing Pains by George R. Leighton, Copyright, 1939, by Harper Brothers; to reprint two chapters from Serve It Forth by M. F. K. Fisher, Copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.