Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Travels in Philadelphia
The publishers of these Travels have asked me to write an introduction to this little volume: it needs no introduction, but I gladly comply, for I am happy to link my name with that of the author.
Occasionally, on red letter days, for two years past these papers have been appearing in the Evening Ledger, and many of us have turned to the editorial page on which they were printed to quiet our nerves preparatory to a glance at the stock market column to discover what has hap pened to our investments. And reassured on this point, it may be, or discouraged, we have turned back to re-read slowly these little essays which, with a humor all their own and a strong local ?avor, have a quality which we supposed had disappeared with the essayists who were writing in London, just a century ago. Finally, the Travels became so popular that I have seen men carefully cut them out with their penknives and place them in their wallets to pass on to some appreciative friend later, with the remark, Have you seen that last thing of Morley's? I cut it out for you.
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