Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Old Memories: Amusing and Historical, a Sequel to Reminiscences of Old Quebec
You have been so good to me, in purchasing, within a few weeks, five hundred copies of a feuilleton, only intended for private circulation, I should like to Show my appreciation, by cater ing to your desire for information regarding our dear old city, Quebec; but what can I do My learned friend, James Maherson lemoine, . Esq, with his wonderful knowledge of facts, . So exhausted the subject in his excellent and beautifully got up book, Picturesque Quebec, I am utterly overwhelmed. Un til I began to study the matter I was quite ignorant that he had written so fully on these matters, so I can only play Boswell to his Johnson, and as without Boswell many of the sayings of the immortal Johnson would have been lost, I too may have my use in. Recording crumbs of information, interesting and instructive, though lacking the dignity of historv.
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