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PREFACE.
To EQUIP SO small a book with a preface is,
I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But
a preface is more than an author can resist,
for it is the reward of his labours. When the
foundation stone is laid, the architect appears
with his plans, and struts for an hour before the
public eye. So with the writer in his preface :
he may have never a word to say, but he must
show himself for a moment in the portico, hat
in hand, and with an urbane demeanour.
It is best, in such circumstances, to represent
a delicate shade of manner between humility
and superiority: as if the book had been
written by some one else, and you had merely
PREFACE.
To EQUIP SO small a book with a preface is,
I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But
a preface is more than an author can resist,
for it is the reward of his labours. When the
foundation stone is laid, the architect appears
with his plans, and struts for an hour before the
public eye. So with the writer in his preface :
he may have never a word to say, but he must
show himself for a moment in the portico, hat
in hand, and with an urbane demeanour.
It is best, in such circumstances, to represent
a delicate shade of manner between humility
and superiority: as if the book had been
written by some one else, and you had merely
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Prefaces |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1878 [Date published] |
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Europe >
Belgium >
Flanders >
Antwerpen province >
Antwerp
(inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > France > Île-de-France > Val-d'Oise > Cergy-Pontois (inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] |
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Description Travel Canoes |
Person / organisation: |
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Illustrator] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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