VIOLETS AND OTHER TALES

by

ALICE RUTH MOORE







Copyright 1895
by the Monthly Review
All rights reserved




To my friend of November 5th, 1892




INTRODUCTION.


In this day when the world is fairly teeming with books,--good books,
books written with a motive, books inculcating morals, books teaching
lessons,--it seems almost a piece of presumption too great for endurance