PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. In laying the following pages before the world my task has been an easy one. I give them precisely as they were given to me. From many of Mr. Disney's remarks I dissent; of some I even disapprove. But it seemed to me fairer to let Mr. Disney tell his own story in his own way, than to use it as materials for an original work of my own. Mr. Disney's unhappy experience of life has imparted a bitterness to his remarks on modern society, of which I cannot altogether approve; although I believe that there are very many who would assert that his strictures are not at all more severe than society deserves. To all who remember Mr. Disney, the details of his autobiography will be, I am sure, as interesting as they have been to me. The Temple, April 1871. A. DE W. |