原版英文小说Adventures in Criticism
The short papers which follow have been reprinted, with a fewalterations, from _The Speaker_. Possibly you knew this withoutmy telling you. Possibly, too, you have sat in a theatre beforenow and seen the curtain rise on two characters exchanginginformation which must have been their common property for years.
So this dedication is partly designed to save me the trouble ofwriting a formal preface.