Books with author John Wiseman

Author s Note I SUBMIT this book to the perusal of the public without anv apologies. I stand tor the dog. Whatever he thinks or says, which you think he could not think or say, put down to my score, good people. I know I have made him cover an unusual range. First of all, I know there will be those who, impatient at anv evidence of idleness in the life of a busy man, judge him to be a trifler by signs like this. Well be it so. I know of an instance where a distinguished Judge on the Court of Appeals of New Hampshire lost appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, because in a suit against a man for killing a mink out of season, when it was chasing the geese of defendant, he delivered an opinion covering twentv-five pages of printed reports, in which he reviewed the whole law of justifiable killing in defence of person or property. It is a great opinion ;but it killed the prospects of the judge who delivered it, bv giving him the name of The Mink Judge. l-ide 53 N. H. 398, Aldrich V. Wright.) Without fearing that I imperil so great a prize, 1know the danger of committing ones name to authorship like this. Still, I am guiltv. And the verdict must be pronounced. I began the book for seven children of my own, disguising, under the story of their seven setter puppies, the desire to familiarize them with life in their native state as I knew her, and with people still there, but seldom heard of, who are the priceless jewels, almost hidden, amid the rubbish of her decav. Some good friends of ours read the manuscript, and flattered me with the idea that it might excite a more wide-spread interest than that of my own home circle. We all know how quickly a writer succumbs to that notion In my case persuasion was easy. And so I launched Diomed. If it does not fall stillborn, 1shall be surprised. If critics will only abuse it into notoriety, I shall be charme(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

Excerpt from The End of an EraThis book needs this much of an apology. It is to a great extent the autobiography of an insignificant per son. If it were that alone, it would have no excuse for publication, and would possess little interest for those out side the immediate home circle. But it is not an autobio graphy alone. It introduces views of Southern life and feelings and civilization, prior to and during the war, which possess an unflagging interest for the American people and it tells the true story of several striking events which preceded our civil strife, and many episodes of the great war. Besides these, it gives accurate de~ scriptions not heretofore published of the appearance and actions and sayings of many distinguished participants on the Confederate side.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book needs this much of an apology. It is to a great extent the autobiography of an insignificant person. If it were that alone, it would have no excuse for publication, and would possess little interest for those outside the immediate home circle. But it is not an autobiography alone. It introduces views of Southern life and feelings and civilization, prior to and during the war, which possess an unflagging interest for the American people; and it tells the true story of several striking events which preceded our civil strife, and many episodes of the great war. Besides these, it gives accurate descriptions not heretofore published of the appearance and actions and sayings of many distinguished participants on the Confederate side.... --The first paragraph of the Author's Preface

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PREFACE THIS book needs this much of an apology. It is to a great extent the autobiography of an insignificant person. If it were that alone, it would have no excuse for publication, and would possess little interest for those outside the immediate home circle. But it is not an autobiography alone. It introduces views of Southern life and feelings and civilization, prior to and during the war, which possess an unflagging interest for the American people; and it tells the true story of several striking events which preceded our civil strife, and many episodes of the great war. Besides these, it gives accurate descriptions not heretofore published of the appearance and actions and sayings of many distinguished participants on the Confederate side. When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. It was a lamentable failure, and made it appear even more egotistical than in its present form. Having returned to the narrative in the first person singular, I found myself a participant in several scenes in which I was not actually present. How to eliminate these, and at the same time preserve the continuity of the narrative, was a serious problem. I solved it at last by the consent of my only living brother that he would stand for me in several episodes having told me all I know.1 I will not mar the narrative by pointing out the places in which my brother is myself. This confession redeems the book from being classed either as an autobiography or a romance; and whenever anybody shall say to me, "Why, you were not there?" I will answer, like the Israelite gentleman, "Yes, I know. Dot vas mine brudder." The reader gets the facts as they were, and that is all he ought to expect.

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