ADVERTISEMENT.
My first book was held objectionable by many
as too stern and gloomy in its character. The
present may be in some respects censurable for the
other extreme. I should feel it less easy to excuse
its levities, than to account for the gravity of its
predecessor. Let them balance each other.
The reader is requested to be indulgent to the
inaccuracies of the press, some of which, in
“Richard Hurdis,” were of an annoying and
awkward kind; all of them, perhaps, are attributable
rather to the writer than the printer. In the
first edition of “Richard Hurdis,” first volume, page
210, the “Alabama” is erroneously printed for the
“Tombecbe river.” The same error is repeated
at page 162, of the second edition. In the same
volume, first edition, page 177, “Jane Hurdis,” is
improperly printed for “Jane Pickett.” This error
is corrected in the second edition. In the present
work, “des règles” occurs for “les règles” at page
69, vol. i.; and there will be found, scattered through
the work, numerous small mistakes of like character,
which the reader, while he corrects them, is at
liberty to ascribe to the ignorance, the inexperience,
or the carelessness of all concerned. An author,
removed a thousand miles from his printer and the
public, is little likely to heed their clamours about
inaccuracies, which the same circumstance makes
him peculiarly liable to commit.
