Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

Day, Holman · 1935

|A_BOUT three thousand years ago the “Preacher” declared that “of making many books there is no end.” This sublimely pessimistic truism deserves to be considered in connection with the time when it was written; otherwise it might accomplish results not intended by its author. It must be remembered that in the “Preacher’s” time books were altogether in writing. It should also be borne in mind that if the handwriting which we have in these days, speaking of the period prior to the advent of the female typewriter, is to be accepted as any criterion, --and inasmuch as all concede that history repeats itself, that may well be assumed,--is easy to understand how, by reason of its illegibility, h…

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