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UNDINE

BY OLIVE SCHREINER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY S.C. CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

MCMXXVIII

UNDINE

COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY S.C. CRONWRIGHT- SCHREINER

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

I. A Queer Little Child

II. Undine's Jottings

III. The Man with the Mouth

IV. Going to Chapel

V. A Sunny Afternoon and a Wild Night

VI. Greenwood

VII. Lovers

VIII. Beautiful Snow

IX. Trodden Snow

X. Melted Snow

XI. A Clever Little Man and a Poor Little Fool

XII. Sold Her Love

XIII. A Very Wicked Woman

XIV. On Board Ship to South Africa

XV. In an Ox Waggon

XVI. New Rush

XVII. Little Irons

XVIII. Little Irons and a Digger

XIX. Albert Blair

XX. Alone with the Stars

INTRODUCTION

HERE, in this novel, which precedes The Story of an African Farm and has some curious and interesting facts associated with it, we have Olive Schreiner "Mewing her mighty youth."

Some years before her death Olive Schreiner said to me that, if ever a biography of her were to be written, she would like me to write it, or, failing me, her "oldest and best friend," Havelock Ellis.

I was in London when she died, and wrote to Ellis as soon as possible. Telling him of her wish, I asked him if he would write the biography. This he found himself unable to do, but offered to place at my service all the information he had if I would undertake it. Without delay I engaged quarters near him and got to work. At our first "business" meeting, he brought up the subject of an unfinished novel of Olive's, mu

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