Description TO PRESUME to multiply books in this day of excellent writers and learned book-makers is a rash thing perhaps for a novice.
The angel was writing at the table, in his vision..
I would rather it would do some good than make a single dollar, and I echo the wish of "Abou Ben Adhem," in that sweet poem of that name, written by Leigh Hunt.
While I hope to secure some pecuniary gain that I may accompany it with a companion illustrating what our women have done, yet by no means do I send it forth with the sordid idea of gain.
Whether this work shall ever accomplish the design of the author may not at all be determined by its sale.
And yet there are books that meet a ready sale because they seem like "Ishmaelites"--against everybody and everybody against them.
It may even be a presumption that shall be met by the production itself being driven from the market by the keen, searching criticism of not only the reviewers, but less noted objectors.
Description TO PRESUME to multiply books in this day of excellent writers and learned book-makers is a rash thing perhaps for a novice
