AND A TERTIUM QUID BY SIR GEORGE GREENWOOD Cet animal est très méchant, LONDON CECIL PALMER 49 CHANDOS STREET COVENT GARDEN W.C.2 Horace tells us that "gaudent praenomine molles auriculae," but the reader will, I feel sure, clearly understand that, if I have omitted Sir Sidney Lee's praenomen, and his title also, on the outside of this little book, my object was simply and solely to abbreviate not his title but that of the present opusculum which is not large enough to carry the weight of much dignity or of many words. For if a book aspires to find rest upon a reader's shelf it ought, in every case, to have its title inscribed in legible characters upon its back, otherwise it is all too likely to be consigned to premature burial in the "W.P.B." If now I be asked "who or what is the tertium quid"? I must at once make answer :— Me, me, adsum qui feci: in me convertite ferrum. G. G. |