Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Half-Hours of Blind Man's Holiday, or Summer and Winter Sketches in Black and White, Vol. 1 of 2
I took counsel with myself, and determined to carry out their suggestions.
The following collection Of stories and essays (all Of which have appeared before in various periodicals) was, in part, the result.
Not without considerable difficulty, however, it must be confessed, did I succeed in persuading editors and publishers to consider my productions. From one magazine office to another they went, sometimes 'declined, ' very politely, 'with thanks;' sometimes retained, with a desire for 'more from the same pen often treated with cold and contemptuous disdain, which.
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