JOHN GALSWORTHY
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Those who don't know the southern countryside of England, and the simpler people thereof, will make a real acquaintanceship with it through some of these unpretentious pages. And the French sketches, especially, by their true flavour of French life, guarantee the writer's possession of that spiritual insight without which art is nothing worth.
I will beat the drum no more; for if the reader likes not this mental fare, no noise of mine will make him.
—Foreword to "The Golden Bird."
