AMBROSE BIERCE
Copyright 1911 by Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.
A Public Domain Text, Copyright Expired
PREFACE
_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _The Cynic's Word Book_, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: