LONDON: PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 5 WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL MALL; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH. PAUSE one moment, gentle Reader—only one little moment will I detain you, while I reply to the question which I have supposed you to ask in the title-page. Blame not me, I beseech you, if you are compelled to make the usual accusation against authors, that there is nothing new in the pages which I diffidently present to you: I am sorry for it, but I cannot help it. Solomon asserted that all things under the sun were aged in his time; and if the wisest of old gentlemen could find nothing new in that early stage of his empire, what can be expected from a poor scribbler like me, near t…
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