Excerpt from Taking the Count, Prize Ring Stories My task here is to write a foreword for one of the books of this edition Of his collected writ ings, but it is hard for one who knew him, as I did through a period of years, to deal with any of his works and at the same time forbear say ing something on the personal side regarding their creator. He was so much a man and yet so much a boy. Nor do I appraise this estimate as having a paradoxical sound. He was all the more the man for being so entirely the boy. 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.