Daisy Ashford: Her Book

Daisy Ashford: Her Book

To your true discoverer the compensations of his trade come when he points with pride to the continent or the great natural fact or the new author he discovered and cries aloud before all creation: "See what I have found!" So, aside from the compliment and the honor of it, I feel added gratification and added pleasure that I should be invited to write a foreword for the first American edition of Miss Daisy Ashford's second book. You see, I claim the distinction of having been the first person in America other than its publisher and my friend Mr. George H. Doran to read the manuscript of that immortal work "The Young Visiters." If I did not actually discover Miss Ashford, at the age of nine when she wrote "The Young Visiters"for indeed no one appears to have discovered her then excepting perhaps her parentsat least I had a hand in discovering her on this side of the Atlantic ocean at a time when mention of her name, which now is so famous a name, meant nothing to the casual hearer. After the lapse of nearly a year the event stands in my memory as marking one of those hours of pure and perfect joy which come but[vii] too rarely to human beings. At the request of Mr. Doran I read the manuscript which he had just brought with him from Europe. I read the story itself first and afterwards the preface, or foreword. This, I think, was as it should be. By rights a preface however sprightly and well doneand a preface by Sir James Barrie would have to be well doneshould be served with a book as cheese is served with a dinner: at its finish and not at the beginning. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 25658
Author: Ashford, Angela
Release Date: May 31, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Ashford, Daisy, 1881-1972