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Excerpt from Poems and Sketches
At the last moment I have, quite unexpectedly, been called upon to write a Preface to the present volume. At the first glance this may appear a super?uous undertaking in presence of the fact that a biographical sketch is already in type, but my talented compiler, Mr. A. G. Thomson, Editor of Scottish Nights, assures me that I should say a word or two as a personal introduction to the work. What can I say? To fully three-fourths of those whose names appear in the, list of subscribers, at the end of this book, I am personally known - to many of them for the better part of a lifetime, and to others, more recently; hence I can hardly expect to say much that will be fresh or new to them.
If authorship has its rewards, it certainly has also its penalties, and one of these is that an author, however humble he may be, is too often expected to be original. I will make no attempt to be so in this instance, but confine myself to a few plain facts.
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