Uncle Remus

Excerpt

I am expected to supply a preface for this new edition of my
first book—­to advance from behind the curtain, as it were, and
make a fresh bow to the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in
so gentle and generous a fashion.  For this event the lights are
to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way
to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book. 
There have been other editions—­how many I do not remember—­but
this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter:  new
type, new pictures, and new binding.