Impressions of Dante and of the New World: With a Few Words on Bimetallism

Excerpt from Impressions of Dante and of the New World: With a Few Words on Bimetallism

"Don't shoot the organist; he's doing his level best." This ancient American story of a notice prominently affixed in a church in the Wild West, as a gentle appeal to the congregation, expresses the mildly deprecatory attitude that I desire to assume to my readers - if I have any - or rather the attitude that I hope they will assume to me. "Don't shoot the essayist; he's doing his level best." I confess that it is difficult to find a valid excuse for republishing old magazine articles, and in my own case I cannot plead that any host of admiring friends has put pressure on me to collect mine.

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