A Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves It is not any servile imitation of a prevalent fashion that leads me to acknowledge a purpose in these slight sketches. Without irony, it may be asserted, that a Railway Book-stall suggests a rapid train of thought. The acceleration effected in our literature, whereby three old established half-guinea volumes become compressed into one newly invented shilling book, is not the least remarkable among modem marvels; but in close proximity to such a startling fact, I place the inscrutable aptitude of authors and publishers, to illustrate human passion and sentiment by distant examples and in far off latitudes. One half the tessellated shew-board of a railway book-stall is monopolized by wild-boar contests or scalp-hunting adventures, the great part of them valiantly achieved in a first floor in Pimlico or Camden Town. Now this is clearly the age for domestic literature; why, then, lay the venue of modern life-sketches in these remote districts? Distance lends enchantment to the view, possibly; and you get height of colouring by extended space; but three mile panoramas, like the orthodox three volume novels are sometimes too highly wrought and have their tintings too obviously "laid on with a trowel." Let us see if by narrowing the canvas to the dimensions of homely family pictures, we may not gain in tone what we lose in vividness. I have tried to combat another fallacy in these little stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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