The Knockers' Club

216 pp. EXCERPT: "What's the use of it? If there's anything in this book, - anything worth reading or skipping, - you'll find it, or pass it, without an introduction. I don't propose to show my full hand by starting in to describe my goods before you see them. Nor shall I begin with an apologetic foreword. That sort of thing has become conventionally chronic. Why not for once have a book without a shame felt preface to it?"