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Excerpt from Recreations of a Literary Man: Or Does Writing Pay?
One result of the following Confessions has been a ¿ood of letters from all quarters, from foreign countries even, addressed to the author,~for counsel, direction, and, in more veiled shape, for assistance. Nearly the same tale was told in all these communications. Each had read the inter esting narrative, some with infinite delight: to say nothing of other compliments; but all wished to be put in the way of disposing of manuscripts with all convenient speed. Many of these appeals had a certain piteousness, setting out the hopeless reiteration of writing and copying, and posting to the different ¿inty publishers, with the almost in variable result. They had toiled round and round the enchanted walls, and tried every gate. The stone had been rolled up with infinite labour again and again, only to descend with a regularity as infinite.
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