Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 77: Or Critical Journal for February, 1843; ..April, 1843; To Be Continued Quarterly
In short, there is no disguising it, the grand principle of mo dern existence is notoriety; we live and move and have our being in print. Hardly a second-rate Dandy can start for the moors, or a retired Slopseller leave London for Margate, without announcing the fashionable movement' in the Morning Post; and what Curran said of Byron, that he wept for the press, and wiped his eyes with the public, ' may now be predicated of every one who is striving for any sort of distinction. He must not only weep, but eat, drink, walk, talk, hunt, shoot, give parties, and travel, in the newspapers. People now-a-days contemptu ously reject the old argument, whom not to know argues your self unknown.' The universal inference is, that, if a man be not known, he cannot be worth knowing; and any attempt to couple merit with modesty, is invariably met with the well-known apho rism of the Reverend Sydney Smith, that the only connexion between them is their both beginning with an m. In this state of things it is useless to swim against the stream, and folly to differ from our contemporaries: a prudent youth will purchase the last edition of The Art of Rising in the World, or Every Man his own Fortune-maker, ' and sedulously practise the main precept it enjoins - never to omit an opportunity of placing your name in printed characters before the world.
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