Excerpt from The Selected Writings of John Ramsay, M. A
A wise man wrote some forty years ago, that there were three difficulties in authorship - to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and, to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game, in which the booksellers are the kings, the critics the knaves, the public the pack, and the poor author the mere table, or thing played upon.
The writer of the following papers, while in life, held some such Opinion as to the gains and comforts of book making. At his death he gave his executors the liberty to gather together into a volume such of his literary bantlings as were thought worth preserving.
For the characteristic portrait of Mr. Ramsay, and graceful artistic drawings of bits and places which he loved to look upon, the Editor has to thank the facile pencil of his friend Mr. George Reid.
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