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PREFACE.
The gratifying success of my former experiences—25,000
copies having already been sold, and the demand steadily
continuing—has induced me to put forth another volume. In
doing so, I have again to thank numerous correspondents, as
well as the reviewers of the pubMc press, for their warm
expressions of appreciation and approval. I have also to
notice a graceful compliment from Berlin, in the translation of
my works into German, by H. Ernst Duby; and another
from Geneva, in the translation of a selection of my sketches
into French, by the Countess Agenor de Gasparin.
A severe and unexpected attack of hemorrhage of the lungs
has prevented me revising about a third of the present volume.
I trust, therefore, that any trifling slips or errors will be
excused on that account.
In conclusion, I would remind readers and reviewers of the
words of Handel, when he was complimented by an Irish
nobleman on having amused the citizens of Dublin with his
Messiah. "Amuse dem?" he warmly replied; "I do not vant
to amuse dem only; I vant to make dem petter."
JAMES M'GOVAN.
Edinburgh, October 1884.
The gratifying success of my former experiences—25,000
copies having already been sold, and the demand steadily
continuing—has induced me to put forth another volume. In
doing so, I have again to thank numerous correspondents, as
well as the reviewers of the pubMc press, for their warm
expressions of appreciation and approval. I have also to
notice a graceful compliment from Berlin, in the translation of
my works into German, by H. Ernst Duby; and another
from Geneva, in the translation of a selection of my sketches
into French, by the Countess Agenor de Gasparin.
A severe and unexpected attack of hemorrhage of the lungs
has prevented me revising about a third of the present volume.
I trust, therefore, that any trifling slips or errors will be
excused on that account.
In conclusion, I would remind readers and reviewers of the
words of Handel, when he was complimented by an Irish
nobleman on having amused the citizens of Dublin with his
Messiah. "Amuse dem?" he warmly replied; "I do not vant
to amuse dem only; I vant to make dem petter."
JAMES M'GOVAN.
Edinburgh, October 1884.