Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. How often since, in life's hard struggles and trials, have these lines helped me! My books were indeed a strange medley, but they were all that were within my reach, and I found them satisfying. They filled my young heart and mind with what fascinated me most - the gorgeous, the wonderful, the grand, the heroic, the self denying, the self-devoting.