The Note-Books of Samuel Butler is a collection of essays and notebook entries selected and arranged by Henry Festing Jones. It gathers Butler's aphorisms, observations, and reflections on literature, art, science, religion, and everyday life. Listeners may enjoy its wit, independence of mind, and the glimpse it gives into a curious Victorian thinker.
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Transcribed from the 1912 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email [email protected] Photograph of Samuel Butler The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Author of “Erewhon” Selections arranged and edited by Henry Festing Jones With photogravure portrait by Emery Walker from a photograph taken by Alfred Cathie in 1898 London A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford’s Inn, E.C. 1912 WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH Preface Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he
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