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PREFACE This is how this book came to be written. It had been decided at University College, London, to hold a course in the Faculty of Engineering on "Presentation of Technical Information". The course was to be at post-graduate standard, to cover a whole session, and to include both lectures...

CvESAR AND CLEOPATRA PROLOGUE In the doorway of the temple of Ra in Memphis. Deep gloom. An august personage with a hawk's head is mysteriously visible by his own light in the darkness within the temple. He surveys the modern audience with great contempti and finally speaks the following words...

B PKEFACE ECAUSE the Stviart charm, working through the long-dead years, enchained me; and then, because personality is deathless, 1 fell into a true love for her Majesty of Bohemia. But how it began ? Well—a strange thing, and yet, if personality is deathless, not so strange. Wandering...

A FOREWORD TO THE POPULAR EDITION OF "MAN AND SUPERMAN"I have a special reason for making this book more widely accessible than it can be, even in these days of free libraries, at the customary price of my books. It is described on the title page as "A Comedy and a Philosophy." It might have been...

PREFACE Words," the poet Donne writes in one ofhis letters, "are our subtillest and delicatest outward creatures, being composed of thoughts and breath " ; and the creatures he thus describes—their echoes and overtones, and the effects which can be produced by the juxtapositions of these...

PREFACE TO PYGMALIONA Professor of PhoneticsAs will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to...