Excerpt from When Love Flies Out O the Window: With an Introd, by W. Robertson Nicoll When Love Flies out o' the Window is one of Mr. Leonard Merrick's finest stories. This means that the book shows a singular mastery Of the narra tive style. Indeed as a narrator Mr. Merrick may well bear comparison with any of his contem poraries. He writes without effort or constraint he wastes no words; he leads on to his conclusion without once turning aside. This means that he has thought out the sequence Of his facts, and that he has planned the exits and the entrances of his characters. All the threads are in his hand, and he never allows one to slip. His conduct of the story is guided mainly by knowledge' and partly by a rare and true instinct. He has a horror of excess in every form, and while he individualises sufficiently his men and women, he never attempts minute characterisation. 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.