![]() We do not even expect the reviewer of the book will say that he has not read it. The critic will read the book before writing a notice of it. We do not object to criticism and we do not expect that Our quotations are set in a vast number of tongues this is done for the reason that very few foreign nations among whom the book will circulate can read in any language but their own whereas we do not write for a particular class or sect or nation, but to take in the whole world. It has been truly observed by Wagner that such headings, with their vague suggestions of the matter which is to follow them, pleasantly inflame the reader's interest without wholly satisfying his curiosity, and we will hope that it may be found to be so in the present case. No apology is needed for following the learned custom of placing attractive scraps of literature at the heads of our chapters. In a State where there is no fever of speculation, no inflamed desire for sudden wealth, where the poor are all simple-minded and contented, and the rich are all honest and generous, where society is in a condition of primitive purity and politics is the occupation of only the capable and the patriotic, there are necessarily no materials for such a history as we have constructed out of an ideal commonwealth. It will be seen that it deals with an entirely ideal state of society and the chief embarrassment of the writers in this realm of the imagination has been the want of illustrative examples. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is submitted without the usual apologies. This book was not written for private circulation among friends it was not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle hour. Sellers and Washington Return Home After the Vote. Senator Dilworthy Addressing the Sunday School.Ĭol. ![]() ![]() Sellers Asleep in House of Representatives. Ruth Looking at the "New One" by Candle Light.Ĭol. Laura Searching for Evidences of Her Birth. Hawkins and Clay at the Grave of his Mother.Ĭol. Colonel Sellers Feeding His Family on Expectations.
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