Excerpt from Pen and Pencil
The Authoress of pen and pencil therefore avails herself of it to say, that she would fain have made the work more worthy of those who have done her the honor to patronise it, as well as of others who may become its readers. Notwithstanding a consciousness of temerity in having, in this age of originality and invention, put forth a volume con Sisting chiefly of historical facts and personal remi niscences, she yet ventures to hope that some degree of favor may be accorded to it on the plea of variety, which even the best and wisest acknowledge has its charms. As the work contains so many notices of Artists and objects of Art, she trusts that the outline representations of Grecian Sculptures will not be considered inappropriate in an American publication, as the time has gone by when the sight of the beautiful master-pieces of antiquity which they serve to recal, could be regarded with other feelings than those of admiration. Were it not so, then education, taste, refinement, both moral and intellectual, might justly be considered at a lower ebb in the United States than among the rest of the civilized world, for it is one of the privileges of Art to form a test by the manner in which it is understood and cultivated.
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