Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Modern Athens, or Who Is First?: A Poem
With these remarks, by way of preface, we respectfully invite the reader to the banquet of amusement which is embodied in Our Modern Athens; or, Who is First? If encouraged in this little affair, we shall continue our efforts to assist in beating down those notions, peculiar to a certain class in this community, which, while innocent enough in themselves, Operate deleteriously on persons at large.
We have in ms. A novel, with the same title as this verse, (although entirely independent of it) which would make up into a book of about 600 pp. 12mo. It covers the whole ground of snobbery, and displays in full the ideas of all classes of citizens. We have offered it to the publishers, and although they think it an original and capital thing, it is our misfortune to be a new author; and their policy is not to make authors, but to be made by them. Truly a cute notion.
We subjoin a synopsis of our novel, and should be happy of any offers of publication from those who are de sirons of seeing the sham aristocracy of Boston cuffed most soundly, in a work full of incident and dramatic effect.
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