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contains extractsfronm each of these titler  \n# CHOSEN WORDSby\n\nIVOR BROWN  \nJONATHAN CAPE  \nTHIRTY BEDFORD SQUARELONDON  \nFIRST PUBLISHED I915  \nPRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN  \nBY TONBRIDGE PRINTERS LTD.,TONBRIDGEBOUND BY A.W.BAIN &CO.,LTD.,LONDON  \n# ACKNOWLEDGEMENT\n\nTHE right to quote is a matter tccming with Icgal complexity.Authors of copyright work to whom I havc appealed becauseI was quoting more than a phrasc or a few lines havc shown methe greatest kindncss,and I would like to cxpress my gratitudeto Mrs.Bambridge,Mr.A.P.Watt,and Messrs.Methuen (inthe matter of quoting from Rudyard Kipling),to Mr.HilaireBelloc,to Mr.John Betjcman,to Mr.Edmund Blunden,toMessrs.Laurence Housman,Jonathan Cape,and the Socicty ofAuthors(in thc matter of quoting from A.E.Housman),toMessrs.Macmillan (in the matter of quoting from Kipling andRalph Hodgson),and to Mr.Sicgfried Sassoon.I am most grate-ful to my fricnds Danicl George,John Moorc,Eric Partridge,Stewart Perowne,Arthur Ransome,and J.C.Trewin forconstant aid of various kinds,and to Mis Gladys Allen,MissMargaret Catt,Miss Cecilia Beckci and Miss Violct Marriottfor valued sccretarial assistance.  \nI include a list of the co-operators who wrote to mc duringthe prcparation of the Word Books.I apologize to those-I hopc few-whose names have been onnitted or sct downincorrectly.In my prologne I made the war-timc confusions oflife some defence for the former fault:for the sccond I wouldplead difficult handwriting and hurried signatures(see my noteon Squiggle in this collection).Whie some have sct me problemsof deciphcring,all have given mc a welcome incitement tocontinue.  \nFOREWORD  \nTHE time has come,in my publisher's opinion,and also in myown,to sift my siftings or,more exactly but more cumbrously,to anthologize my word-anthologies.A series which began asa single random war-time volume had extended to eight,duelargely to the goodwill of my readers who also became,in a way,my writers.They have been a kindly and a numerous team;offering,as it were,'my word for yours',they have showcredme with corrections,suggestions,and additions and have thuscontributed to each new book as it came along.As my titlessuggest,I was continually trying to stop ·and then was chasedback into action.A list of these urgent co-operators appears atthe cnd of this foreword;the roll nay be incomplcte becausecorrespondence reached mc at all sorts of times in all sorts ofplaces:somc of it arrived during the explosive and mobile con-ditions of London life in war-time when a proper regard foronc's papers was often incompatible with self-regard for one'sperson.I did my best to acknowledge and to fle thesc courtesiesfrom many unknown friends as well as from a few known ones.But it was impossible to combine with a journalist's workadayexistence as much responsc as the corrcspondence descrved.SoI apologize for onissions on my part while I renew my gratitudefor the favour of such widesprcad assistance.  \nIn the course of thc cight 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