Tales and Novels - Volume 2, EPUB eBook

Tales and Novels - Volume 2 EPUB

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Excerpt: "PREFACE. Some author says, that a good book needs no apology; and, as a preface is usually an apology, a book enters into the world with a better grace without one.

I, however, appeal to those readers who are not gluttons, but epicures, in literature, whether they do not wish to see the bill of fare?

I appeal to monthly critics, whether a preface that gives a view of the pretensions of the writer is not a good thing?

The author may overvalue his subject, and very naturally may overrate the manner in which it is treated; but still he will explain his views, and facilitate the useful and necessary art which the French call reading with the thumb.

We call this hunting a book, a term certainly invented by a sportsman.

I leave the reader to choose which he pleases, whilst I lay before him the contents and design of these volumes..."

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