The Tears Of Childhood Fall Fast And

The Writing Of Solid, Instructive Stuff Fortified By Facts And Figures Is Easy Enough. There Is No Trouble In Writing A Scientific Treatise On The Folk-lore Of Central China, Or A Statistical Enquiry Into The Declining Population Of Prince Edward Island. But To Write Something Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Modern Critics, Who Refuse To Let A Plain Thing Alone, Have Now Started A Theory That Cervantes's Work Is A Vast Piece Of "symbolism." If So, Cervantes Didn't Know It Himself And Nobody Thought Of It For Three Hundred Years. He Meant It As A Satire Upon The Silly Romances Of Chivalry.

The Student Of Arithmetic Who Has Mastered The First Four Rules Of His Art, And Successfully Striven With Money Sums And Fractions, Finds Himself Confronted By An Unbroken Expanse Of Questions Known As Problems.

Men Are Able To Trust One Another, Knowing The Exact Degree Of Dishonesty They Are Entitled To Expect.

My Parents Migrated To Canada In 1876, And I Decided To Go With Them.