Excerpt from The Case of Mr. Lucraft: And Other Tales When Jules Janin once published a collection of tales which as he modestly owned, would leave nothing behind them when once read, he asked himself why he was putting them together for publication. And the best answer he could find was, C'est son Altesse ma Vanite qui le veut ainsi. He goes on to say that the reader may be very well content with this motive, qui est le grand fond de tous les caracteres et de toutes les oeuvres d'ici-bas. 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.