A Last Will (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Last Will

Introductionwrote A Last Will in 1897. It was published first in Har pers Weekly in 1898. Shortly afterwards it began to appear in a sporadic way in the news papers. Whenever a newspaper did not have at hand what it really wan ted, which was apiece entitled Reunion of Brothers Separated for Fifty Tears, or Marriage Customs Among the N atives of the Fricassee Is lands, it would run in this piece of mine. In return for the free use of the piece, the paper, not to be outdone in liberality, would generally correct and change it, and fix it up, (ften in the most beautiful manner; sothat I am forced to believe that nearly every paper has on its stafi a professor of literature and belles-lettres, always ready to red - ink the essays of the begin ner and give them the seeming of masterpieces, and gradually to unfold to the novice all the marvels of the full college cur riculum. This simple work of mine has been constantly under goingchangeand improvement. Sometimes the head has been cut of; sometimes a beautiful wooden foot has been spliced on. When a certain press at Cam bridge reprin ted it Cambridge is undoubtedly the home of acute belles-lettres it used.

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