My Summer in a Garden — Charles Dudley Warner

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.MY DEAR MR. FIELDS, â€" I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction, â€" what is it? â€" a sort of pilaster, put upon the face of a building for looks' sake, and usually flat, â€" very flat. Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them