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Excerpt from Traits of Travel, or Tales of Men and Cities
Aurnons of what is intended to be (like the present volumes) light reading, are sometimes temptel to make prefatory acknowledgments that illness and other de pressing circumstances have attended the progress of their work. I doubt the policy Of this plan either in propitiating the critic or in interesting the public. It is very questionable whether the state of mind or body ia ?uences the pen when it is able to move at all. Many a farce has been composed m moods of hypochondria, and the deepest tragedies have Often been the produc tions of the merriest fellows. But even admitting the contrary of my theorems, the captions reader is too fond of his privilege of finding faults, to receive a warn ing that he is to meet with them at every turn; while the most tolerant must be prejudiced against an e?'ort to amuse, prefaced by a desponding face or a suit of mourning. The better way' is, surely, to let readers be cheerful and contented while they may. On this prin ciple, I hope mine will believe that the following pages were written in high health, high fortune, and high spirits. With a friendly few, who may find reason to imagine the contrary, I have little fear of its doing any mischief.
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