My Life and Dancing #246531

When first it was suggested to me that I should write this small book it seemed to me to savour a little of Imposing on the wonderful kind ness with which my work and myself have been received. But when the suggestion was backed up by the advice, almost the demands, of friends in whose judgment I have confidence, my scruples vanished, and I decided liberare animam mm to liberate my mind, as the Classic author puts it. If it gives pleasure to or interests the friends who have appreciated my work, or even bring those who have misunderstood it to a better understanding, and especially if it prove helpful to any young girl whose ambition it is to take up an artistic career, I shall feel most amply rewarded. I shall feel that I was justified In braving criticism on the score of the premature publication of even so brief an outline as this of my life's work.