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Excerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo: Hans of Iceland; Bug-Jargal; Claude Gueux
Realizing, then, his inability to bring forth, either by talent or knowledge, by wings or by beak, as an ingenious Arabian verse has it, - a preface that would be interesting to his readers, the author has determined to o?er to them here nothing but a serious and candid account of the cor rections that have been made in this second edition.
First of all he desires to say that the term second edi tion is decidedly out of place, and that the title of first edition is really applicable to this reprinting, inasmuch as the four unsymmetrical packages of black-and-white spotted grayish paper, which an indulgent public has been kind enough hitherto to accept as the four volumes of Hans of Ice land, have been so desecrated with typographical incongrui ties by a barbarous printer, that the unhappy author, in looking over his unrecognizable offspring, underwent contin ually the agony which a father might feel on recovering his child, mutilated and tattooed at the hands of the Iroquois of Lake Ontario.
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