Burlesque - Hardcover

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If (he principle which should guide the editor of ihu Ticurc-T rove Series has been Foltowcil, 3s I think it has, the re ult will be a series of readable litile volumes, which one mar Pintervals with the cetlainly of finding otnc things, I would fain hope many things, in which he cannot fail to be interested. He should looli, in the first place, fur aiDUSCD i Enl; in the second place, for variety: if he finds vbese finalities here, he has aomethins to be thankful for. He has to be thankful, at any rate, for the labor which the compiler lus ciperided for him, labor which is not to be measured by what is accepted so much as by what is rejected, i Jie readii ck many books to no end. If the best books are those which are nal written, as a cynical critic would have us believe, the woisi boots arc certainly in the same category, a happy thought, as a great living philosopher would have us believe, nhich is not without its compensations. Not to dweil, however, upon these literary possibilities, which we can well spare, ao numberless are the books on all sorts o Esubjects which cvoy day brings forth, let us turn for a moment to the papers wlilch follow. We have first, from the pen of England sgKU cxt humorist, a serio-comic protest against an individual w Ukwhom we in America arc tolerably familiar. I refer to ikat nropant and irrepressible myth the noble savage. He Mh IcI lls earliest appearanccin English poetry, I believe. In Drileil Conquest of Grenada, the tirst p.
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