They published four of the series, namely: 'The Golden Pipes, The Guardian of the Fire, By that Place Called Peradventure, The Singing of the Bees, and The Tent of the Purple Mat'.

In England, because I would not separate the first five, and publish them individually, two or three of the editors who were taking the Pierre series and other stories appearing in this volume would not publish them.

They, also, were frightened by the mystery and allusiveness of the tales, and had an apprehension that they would not be popular.
Perhaps they were right.

They were all fantasies, but I do not wish them other than they are.

One has to write according to the impulse that seizes one and after the fashion of one's own mind.