ERRATA TO VOL. I. Page 164, line 15, for wsäche read wäsche. 168, 224, 226, 10, after since, insert" High-born Hoel." 7, for attained, read obtained. 6 from the bottom, insert a comma after examination. 247, in the note, for par read pas. 275, line 2 from the bottom, for to, read too. 300, 18, for proudy, read proudly. AND SO we are to have no "Sentimental Travels in Germany" on hot-pressed paper, illustrated with views taken on the spot? ALDA. No. MEDON. You have unloaded Time of his wallet only to VOL. I. deal out his "scraps of things past," his shreds of remembrance, in beggarly, indolent fashion, over your own fireside? You are afraid of being termed an egotist; you, who within these ten minutes have assured me that not any opinion of any human being should prevent you from doing, saying, writing any thing ALDA. Finish the sentence-any thing, for truth's sake. But how is the cause of truth to be advanced by the insolent publication of a mass of crude thoughts and hasty observations picked up here and there," as pigeons pick up pease," and which now lie safe within the clasps of those little great books? You need not look at them; they do not contain another Diary of an Ennuyée, thank Heaven! nor do I feel much inclined to play the Ennuyeuse in public. MEDON. "Take any form but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble;" but with eyes to see, a heart to feel, a mind to observe, and a pen to record those observations, I do not perceive why you should not contribute one drop to that great ocean of thought which is weltering round the world! |