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Excerpt from The Rhymer's Family: A Collection of Bantlings
Every little publication of this sort requires to be prefaced by apology in this practical age. Poetry is the most unmarketable commodity in the world unless its author has attained a certain celebrity. A volume by an unknown poet will scarcely find a publisher. We need not wonder that the publisher of a provincial publication such as the present requires to be protected by subscription, when we consider that a taste for poetry is not the most prevailing of the day.
The greater part of this little collection has appeared in the 'Arbroath Guide,' 'Scotsman,' 'Tait's Magazine, the 'Glasgow Citizen,' and some have been copied by the London press: - this is a sort of guarantee that they are readable at least, and some excuse for republishing them in a collected form. I will not say a word about the smallness of the 'Family,' lest the reader should reply 'There is too much of a good thing.'
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