Villa Rubein and Other Stories

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art. And my friend, wiser than I, as he has always been, replied with this doubting phrase Could we recapture the zest of that old time?