To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword<br/>of warning before you peruse the contents of this book.<br/>I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither<br/>poems nor prose. Just dreams - Day Dreams - a bit of<br/>romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, not<br/>studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest<br/>of masters! . . . Nature!<br/><br/>While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly<br/>kept from my preferred and actual field of activity, I took<br/>to dreams to forget the tediousness of worldly strife and the<br/>boredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette.<br/>Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring<br/>you as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought to<br/>me in the writing.<br/><br/> Rudolph Valentino