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Excerpt from Odd Hours of a Physician
A Book, as a man, has Antecedents. Acquaintance with either is not, perhaps, better to be commenced than by learning something of such pre-associations.
The antecedents of this little volume are found in the circumstances, that the author having written a book which was not without a satisfactory share of success, it brought from his publisher a request for a second; and this so persuasively worded - as reference was had to the banker - that to have denied it would have been to admit that a person may be afflicted with the cacoethes scribendi, and at the same time be insusceptible to the solid arguments of the book-makers, - a thing, so far as the author can learn, never yet known, and not well to be made a precedent by anybody.
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