Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wild Oats Sowings, or the Autobiography of an Adventurer
In these days, when book-writing has become the ordinary occupation of a large proportlon of our countrymen, as well as women, it requires no ordinary sacrifice of difiidence in the amateur, to venture even upon the record of an ower true tale. By far the greatest stumbling?alock in his way, is the glowing language, innate in some, in which the hero or herome of the modern novelette is portrayed, and which appears at the present day to be the-standard most commonly accepted by the people and aimed at by the author. But this standard will not do for the relator of sober facts Of actual life, who 1s obliged to place ideality beyond his reach, that he may the better follow the course of events in his history.
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