Excerpt from A Book of Vagaries: Comprising the New Mirror for Travelers and Other Whim-Whams The title which I have given to this volume of the works of James K. Paulding was not devised for the sake of any bizarre effect it might be supposed to have, but because it seemed to me really to suggest the character of the contents. Even The New Mirror for Travellers which occupies so much Space in it, is rather a series of satirical observations varied with brief essays or stories than a connected work. Mr. Paulding, even ...
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Excerpt from A Book of Vagaries: Comprising the New Mirror for Travelers and Other Whim-Whams The title which I have given to this volume of the works of James K. Paulding was not devised for the sake of any bizarre effect it might be supposed to have, but because it seemed to me really to suggest the character of the contents. Even The New Mirror for Travellers which occupies so much Space in it, is rather a series of satirical observations varied with brief essays or stories than a connected work. Mr. Paulding, even when he started out with some special object in view, was apt to follow the lead of his fancy as it warmed, and to set down just what popped into his head. If this rambling and discursive habit has its great disadvantages, it is not without a certain compensation, in the assurance which it gives to the reader that he is not entrapped into a piece of sentiment, or led up, like a partridge by cautiously strewed grains of buckwheat, into a hair-noose of a jest. Old birds of readers, familiar with the arts of writing men, will call to mind many a seed that they have seen dropped on the way, to be harvested by and by with as much certainty as a rye crop. Why, some men dibble 'em in, like cabbage plants; and one knows that they will, in due time, weather and worms permitting, blow out into full head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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