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BY THE FREEMAN, INC.,

THE FREEMAN CORPORATION

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COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY

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The Freeman

March 17, 1920—March 5, 1924.

Founded by HELEN SWIFT NEILSON

THE following were associated in the editorial conduct and production of the Freeman during its four years or a considerable part of that period:

Francis Neilson

Albert Jay Nock

B. W. Huebsch

Van Wyck Brooks

Suzanne La Follette

Walter G. Fuller

Geroid Tanquary Robinson

AN EXPLANATION

The laudable ambition to compress the best of eight volumes into one book of conventional length proved impossible of adequate fulfillment. Of the thousands who read and loved the Freeman none will agree with the selection here presented; but none who tries to prove how much better he could have done the job will withhold sympathy from the one who undertook the task.

Initials and names of contributors included in this volume, with pages on which they occur:

THE MAIDEN DEW

(Translated from the Polish by Stanislava Piotrowska.)

THERE was at Ludimier, near the river Black Dunajec, a monastery of Cistercian Brothers. It was the wojewoda, Ivo Cedro, who established it; and when he did so, a little devil peeped over his shoulder. One could see it even on his picture hanging behind the altar in the church.

ONE ON A TOWER

THINK, if you will, of the different sorts of places that different authors write in: some in bungalows, some in offices, some in hall-bedrooms; and some few in libraries, as veridically reported through the illustrated literary periodicals. Then, too, their costumes: some in shirt-sleeves; some in sport-clothes; some in dressing gowns or in monks’ robes, like Balzac; some in rags and some in tags and some in velvet gowns. . . .