As there are several unauthorized Editions of my works; now circulating freely in the United States, it is but fair to the publishers of the present volume to state that thisi issue of Wormwood; A Drama of Paris, has been per sonally revised and corrected for' them by me, and 13 the only Authorized tension for America. Other novels of mine, notably A Romance of '1wo Worlds, Thelma, Vendetta' and Ardath are to be had in various forms at all prices throughout the States; needless to say that these have been published without any reference to me as author, and, having been brought out in unseemly haste and carelessness, are full of the grossest errors and mistakes, for which I, naturally, cannot be responsible. That' the Romance of Two Worlds for example, ap 'pea1ed in New York with a misleading picture-cover representing the Eastern and Weste1 n hemispheres.