MONTAIGNE AND OTHER PAPERS BY MISS GRACE NORTON AUTHOR OF STUDIES IN MONTAIGNE" Tout y est bon, ou au moins tout y est humain. Montaigne. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1904 All rights reserved A HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and published November, 1904 THE MASON PRESS PREFACE The writings of Montaigne prior to his Essays have been but little studied, yet they are of interest in themselves, and of still greater interest from containing, to some extent, indications of the origin of thoughts that are developed in the Essays, and from affording information as to various influences that affected their author's mind through life. It is this that makes it worth while, as it rarely is, to concern ourselves with the imperfect when we possess the better thing. |
