"Distinction no longer adheres either to the art of travel or that of letters. The common level for both sinks year by year. Especially where the two meet, in what is loosely called a book of travel, have the cheapness of journeys and the vulgarity of writing conspired to increasingly mediocre results. The existence of an intelligent minority undesirous of information, of description, careless of guidance, and impatient of dogma, comes more and more to be forgotten. It is to such an intelligent minority that this book is offered. These pages do not lead to Westminster Abbey, nor to the...

"Cape of Storms" from Percival Pollard. American literary critic, novelist and short story writer (1869-1911).

"The Imitator" from Percival Pollard. American literary critic, novelist and short story writer (1869-1911).