"The Open Window," "The Schartz Metterklume Method," and "Clovis on Parental Responsibilities," originally appeared in the Westminster Gazette , "The Elk" in the Bystander , and the remaining stories in the Morning Post . To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint them.
Leonard Bilsiter was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought compensation in an "unseen world" of their own experience or imagination or invention. Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people. Leonard Bilsiter's beliefs were for "the few," that is to say, anyone who would listen to him.
Subject: Almost perfect narration. almost.