I saw the vast Halls and Palaces of men falling in slowly, decaying, crumbling, destroyed by nothing but the rains and the touch of Time. And looking again I saw wandering over and above the ruins, moving curiously about, myriads of brown, hairy, repulsive little apes.
One of them was building a fire with sticks.
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#STUDIES IN SOLITARY LIFE.# By W. R. TITTERTON.
This volume is a collection of some of the best studies of Mr. W. R. Titterton, one of the most brilliant journalists of the Modern School, whose volume "Love Poems" has been one of the successes of the publishing season.
"Studies in Solitary Life" is not a collection of stories with plots, but rather true life studies and character sketches of unattractive people from the worldly standpoint.
Tramps, beggar-children, ledger-clerks, bohemian town-dwellers and all lonely people claim the author's sympathy, and his virile pen presents their surroundings and emotions so powerfully and realistically that the reader at once feels personally acquainted with the characters portrayed. When the reader has finished the book, he will find that he has been listening to a startling indictment and a triumphal justification of Life.
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"Sincere, but somewhat realistic ... a good many deal with the misery of base passion and lost women."--_The Times._
"His pen is a whip that cuts to the bone of life. He is restrained by no conventions."--_The Daily News._
"The author deals sympathetically with love themes seldom touched on except in poetry more or less pagan in outlook."--_The Glasgow Herald._
These Essays represent the thought of a converted Philistine endeavouring to free himself from the slavery of conventional ideas, and to find that justice which is "love with seeing eyes."
The Decay of Individuality. The Futility of Speech. Plain Writing. The Failure of Success. The Temptations of Enthusiasm. Of the Sorrow of Wisdom. Combativeness. The Worth of Attitude. On Second-Hand Minds. The Use of Enemies. On Reading Great Lives. Woman. On Self-Sacrifice. Discipline.