Morris Craw Russell
Published: 2015-06-28
Total Pages: 304
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Excerpt from Uncle Dudley's Odd Hours, Being the Vagaries of a Country Editor This is the first book with which we have ever afflicted a patient public. If any one doubts this statement, we commend him to a careful perusal of its pages. The author is not "stuffed up" with the idea that this is the first book ever published, - excepting in the Zenith City, - nor that it is destined to work a revolution in the domestic affairs of the human family. Nor do we anticipate that its sale, when placed on the market, will exceed "Robinson Crusoe," the "Pilgrim's Progress," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Innocents Abroad" and "Aesop's Fables, ' all combined. In fact, we have no assurance that it will equal in general circulation any one of these works. But, we dare to hope that enough of them will be wanted by a charitable public to enable us to pay the binder for his "lids" and the paper-maker for his trouble in turning out the sheets. The bill for type-setting and printing is already honestly adjusted, because we did it ourself, - that is, a member of the Dudley tribe did it, - during "odd hours." Whether we shall ever publish another book, or whether we shall ever produce a second edition of this one, remains, principally, with the present generation to say. If we find that the people actually suffer for more, it might be just like the author to comply with a clamor of that kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.