Excerpt from Selected Tales From Tales of a Traveller, Vol. 1
The purpose of the "Pocket Classics" is so well known that it seems scarcely necessary to say more of this one than that this purpose has been held in mind as steadfastly as was possible to the writer. Elucidation of the text, presentation of the influences which moulded the author"s character, as well as the principles which guided his work, in connection with the details of his biography, and some few suggestions as to feasible methods of using the Tales as a basis for the technical study of good expression, were the main considerations.
Hearty thanks are due from the readers as well as from the writer for the cordial permission of the Houghton Mifflin Company to use Charles Dudley Warner"s Irving. It has been the basis of all biographical detail, and many critical estimates, to such an extent that apologies may be necessary for resemblances in expression where the thought has taken on its coloring, though the quotation marks were impossible.
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