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Whether the pages which follow, clothed, as they are, in a foreign and unidiomatic English, are worthy of being laid before the British public, will remain for the reader to decide. To the objections which may be raised to errors occurring in the course of the work, and which I cannot but myself perceive, I would merely reply, Go and do better; and you will see me greet your book with a joy far surpassing the pleasure which the writing of this has given to me.
