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PREFACE
PREFACE
Many of the letters in this volume first appeared in the New
York Commercial Advertiser, but, with others, they are now
presented in a changed and highly improved form.
The Press has echoed the following sentiment of the Richmond
Whig:—
“`Lan,' the wicked, mischievous and dashing correspondent of the
Commercial Advertiser, has surpassed all contemporaneous letter writers in
waggery, fun, invention, and sensational effect. He has made a national
reputation.”
“`Lan's' Saratoga letters were supplemented, after the return of their
author, Mr. Melville D. Landon, to New York, by the humorous and
statistical letters of `Eli Perkins'; and this new nom de plume has become
as well known as `Lan.”'
“The letters of both `Lan' and `Eli Perkins' have won so wide a
popularity throughout the United States that we have asked Mr. Landon
to prune them, enrich them with suitable additions, and arrange them for
publication in a book.”
Here is the book—embellished, moreover, with numerous
graphic illustrations from the felicitous pencil of Mr. Arthur
Lumley.
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