Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1776-1779), Vol. 1: Edited With Introduction and Notes
Depend on it, Young. That those notes you wrote at the moment are more likely to please than what you will now produce coolly, with the idea of reputation in your whatever you strike out will be what is most interesting, for you W111 be guided by the importance of the subject; and, believe me, it is not this consideration that pleases, so much as a careless and easy mode of thinking and writing. Which every man exercises most when he does not compose for the press. That I am right in this 0 inion you your self afford a proof. Your Tour in Irelan (he was pleased to say) is one of the best accounts of the country I have read yet it had no great success. Why? Because the chief part of it is a farming diary, which, however valuable it may be to consult, nobody will read. If, therefore, you print your journal at all. Print it so as tobe read; or reject the method entirely and confine yourself to set dissertations.
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