To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a forewordof warning before you peruse the contents of this book.I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neitherpoems nor prose. Just dreams - Day Dreams - a bit ofromance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, notstudied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatestof masters! . . . Nature!While lying idle, not through choice, but because forciblykept from my preferred and actual field of activity, I tookto dreams to forget the tediousness of worldly strife and theboredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette.Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bringyou as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought tome in the writing. Rudolph Valentino
