OR, The Gossip of Great Writers. A BOOK OF ANECDOTE, LACONIC SAYINGS, WARD, LOCK & TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 270. g. 7346 PREFACE. THE following compilation is designed to form a handy volume of curious and entertaining selections which do not properly fall within the province of "Popular Readings," "Elegant Extracts," etc.; many of them, indeed, are gleanings from the by-ways of Literature, and are probably known to few general readers. The Editor ventures to hope that the present selection will prove acceptable to a large class who have little or no time or disposition to devote themselves to a regular course of literary study; and that, to such readers, this little book may furnish some amusement and even instruction. W. A. C. |