Obiter Dicta
Excerpt
This seems a very little book to introduce to so large a
continent. No
such enterprise would ever have suggested itself to the
home-keeping
mind of the Author, who, none the less, when this edition was
proposed
to him by Messrs. Scribner on terms honorable to them and grateful
to
him, found the notion of being read in America most fragrant
and
delightful.