These sketches appeared originally in _Vanity Fair_, _The New York
Tribune Sunday Magazine_, _Collier's Weekly_, _Life_, and _Motor
Print_, all but two of these magazines immediately afterward having
either discontinued publication or changed hands. To those which are
old enough to remember, and to the new managements of the others, the
author offers grateful acknowledgment for permission to reprint the
material in this book. (As a matter of fact, permission was never
asked, but they probably won't mind anyway.)