The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil: Showing how the
Horse-Shoe Came to be a Charm Against Witchcraft. "A man's worst
wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a
generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is
no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having
contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others,
without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth
writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is,
can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable
friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more
intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my friend would write a
book " In former days, possibly, things may have been very
different from what they now are. Haply, the literary highway may,
heretofore, have been not particularly clean, choked with rubbish,
badly drained, ill lighted, not always well paved even with good
intentions, and beset with dangerous characters, bilious-looking
Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon, hocus, strangle, and
pillage any new arrival. But all that is now changed. Now, the path
of literature is all velvet and roses. The race of quacks and
impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and the dodo;
and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being tarred and
feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united happy
family"-of letters.
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