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Title: Masques & Phases

Author: Robert Ross

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MASQUES & PHASES***

Transcribed from the December 1909 Arthur L. Humphreys edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

MASQUES & PHASES

BY
ROBERT ROSS

LONDON:
ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS
187 PICCADILLY, W.
1909

The author wishes to express his indebtedness, to Messrs. Smith, Elder
for leave to reproduce 'A Case at the Museum,' which appeared in the
_Cornhill_ of October, 1900; to the Editor of the _Westminster Gazette_,
which first published the account of Simeon Solomon; and to the former
proprietors of the Wilsford Press, for kindly allowing other articles to
be here reissued. 'How we Lost the Book of Jasher' and 'The Brand of
Isis' were contributed to two undergraduate publications, _The Spirit
Lamp_ and _The Oxford Point of View_.

_To_ HAROLD CHILD, ESQ.

THE DEDICATION.

MY DEAR CHILD,

It is not often the privilege of a contributor to address his former
editor in so fatherly a fashion; yet it is appropriate because you
justified an old proverb in becoming, if I may say so, my literary
parent. Though I had enjoyed the hospitality, I dare not say the
welcome, of more than one London editor, you were the first who took off
the bearing-rein from my frivolity. You allowed me that freedom, of
manner and matter, which I have only experienced in undergraduate
periodicals. It is not any lack of gratitude to such distinguished
editors as the late Mr. Henley; or Mr. Walter Pollock, who first accorded
me the courtesies of print in a periodical not distinguished for its
courtesy; or Professor C. J. Holmes, who has occasionally endured me with
patience in the _Burlington Magazine_; or Mr. Edmund Gosse, to whom I am
under special obligations; that I address myself particularly to you. But
I, who am not frightened of many things, have always been frightened of
editors. I am filled with awe when I think of the ultramarine pencil
that is to delete m