Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG To equip so small a book with a preface
is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is
more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his
labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears
with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So
with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say,
but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand,
and with an urbane demeanour. It is best, in such circumstances, to
represent a delicate shade of manner between humility and
superiority: as if the book had been written by some one else, and
you had merely run over it and inserted what was good. But for my
part I have not yet learned the trick to that perfection; I am not
yet able to dissemble the warmth of my sentiments towards a reader;
and if I meet him on the threshold, it is to invite him in with
country cordiality.
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