Upon a matter of such tremendous importance to the American
people as is the subject herein treated, it is perhaps due our readers
to let them know how much of fact disports itself through these
pages in the garb of fiction.
We beg to say that in no part of the book has the author consciously
done violence to conditions as he has been permitted to view them,
amid which conditions he has spent his whole life, up to the present
hour, as an intensely absorbed observer.
If in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts him
in a mood to chide, may the author not hope that the wrath aroused
be not wasted upon the inconsequential painter, but directed toward
the landscape that forced the brush into his hand, stretched the
canvas, and shouted in irresistible tones: “Write!”
Very respectfully,
SUTTON E. GRIGGS.
Nashville, Tenn., May, 1905.
people as is the subject herein treated, it is perhaps due our readers
to let them know how much of fact disports itself through these
pages in the garb of fiction.
We beg to say that in no part of the book has the author consciously
done violence to conditions as he has been permitted to view them,
amid which conditions he has spent his whole life, up to the present
hour, as an intensely absorbed observer.
If in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts him
in a mood to chide, may the author not hope that the wrath aroused
be not wasted upon the inconsequential painter, but directed toward
the landscape that forced the brush into his hand, stretched the
canvas, and shouted in irresistible tones: “Write!”
Very respectfully,
SUTTON E. GRIGGS.
Nashville, Tenn., May, 1905.
