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Excerpt from Counsels of an Invalid: Letters on Religious Subjects
The Letters of George Wilson were among the most characteristic effusions of his genius. His intimate friends, with one consent, pro nounced him the most delightful letter-writer of their circle; and it has been justly felt by the public, that of the great and varied merits of his biography, perhaps the chief is the skill and taste with which these memorials have been made to tell the tale of his life, and to paint the full pic ture of his character. After a selection of corre spondence so copious and diversified, it may be thought by some that anything more is super 'fiuous. This objection will disappear when it is known how small a proportion the published lettersbear to the mass, not less interesting and attrac tive, which remains untouched. Probably many have hoped, with the writer of this Prefatory Note, that additional selections would be issued, and some, perhaps, have wished that, in such a case, these should be less miscellaneous and fragment ary than was demanded by the laws of biography, and should rather revolve around some one topic of central interest; while of all such topics, there can have been little difference of Opinion that religion deserved the preference, both from its own paramount importance, and from the quali fications, in all respects high, in some singular, of the writer for treating it with success in the form of letters.
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