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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Volume 1

CONTENTS:
MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN BACKLOG STUDIES BADDECK

INTRODUCTORY LETTER
MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,--I did promise to write an Introduction to
these charming papers but an Introduction,--what is it?--a sort of
pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually
flat,--very flat. Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I
understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a
woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure
which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as
with them. But an Introduction is more apt to be a pillar, such as one
may see in Baalbec, standing up in the air all alone, with nothing on it,
and with nothing for it to do.
But an Introductory Letter is different. There is in that no formality, no
assumption of function, no awkward propriety or dignity to be
sustained. A letter at the opening of a book may be only a footpath,
leading the curious to a favorable point of observation, and then leaving
them to wander as they will.

Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might
better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches
all day, but because he works unconsciously. He dare not even bring
his work before his own eyes, but keeps it behind him, as if too much
knowledge of what one is doing would spoil the delicacy and modesty
of one's work.
Almost all graceful and fanciful work is born like a dream, that comes
noiselessly, and tarries silently, and goes as a bubble bursts. And yet
somewhere work must come in,--real, well-considered work.
Inness (the best American painter of Nature in her moods of real human
feeling) once said, "No man can do anything in art, unless he has
intuitions; but, between whiles, one must work hard in collecting the
materials out of which intuitions are made." The truth could not be hit
off better. Knowledge is the soil, and intuitions are the flowers which
grow up out of it. The soil must be well enriched and worked.
It is very plain, or will be to those who read these papers, now gathered
up into this book, as into a chariot for a race, that the author has long
employed his eyes, his ears, and his understanding, in observing and
considering the facts of Nature, and in weaving curious analogies.
Being an editor