Madame Agnes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Madame Agnes M. Charles Dubois: My dear Friend: You wish your first work to appear under my auspices. Does that mean I am to take you by the hand, and, addressing the respectable community whose approbation you are ambitious of securing, speak somewhat as follows: "I have the honor of making you acquainted with M. Charles Dubois, a gentleman of cultivated mind and feelings. I also present Madame Agnes, which is a work of merit. To all who wish to make the acquaintance of this author and his work I promise much pleasure and great benefit"? Jesting apart, I think you are doubly wrong. In the first place, your book has no need of a sponsor. And then, you invest me quite gratuitously with an authority that only belongs to Maréchaux de la littérature. Nevertheless, as it is your wish, I will fulfil it. But you are by no means ignorant that a preface is a very delicate affair. In the first place, no one reads it. Out of ten persons who open a book, seven or eight generally skip deliberately the Preface, Introduction, Avant-Propos, Advice to the Reader, etc., even if signed by the most celebrated names. Since, therefore, the thoughtful alone will deign to read this prefatory letter, why not venture on a slight moral? Why not avail myself of Madame Agnes to speak of the class of literature to which it belongs? Your book has certainly more than one thing to recommend it. It displays at once, as I could show, keen observation, a skilful pen, an ardent nature, sterling sense, and a Christian spirit. And yet it is not all this that strikes me most forcibly, and which I wish to dwell on here. Madame Agnes is an argument, and a strong one, in favor of one of the subjects, at once moral and literary, which I have most at heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.