The sound of "Chancery," the stereotype
character of this volume, and its cheap price, may perhaps deter
pirates,--who are but a weak body in this country as yet. I
judged it right to help in that; and impertinent, at this stage
of affairs, to go any farther. The Book is very fairly printed,
onward. at least to the Essay _New England Politics,_ where my
"perfect-copy" of the sheets as yet stops. I did not read any of
the Proofs except two; finding it quite superfluous, and a sad
waste of time to the hurried Chapman himself. I have found yet
but one error, and that a very correctable one, "narvest" for
"harvest";--no other that I recollect at present.
The work itself falling on me by driblets has not the right
chance yet--not till I get it in the bound state, and read it all
at once--to produce its due impression on me. But I will say
already of it, It is a _sermon_ to me, as all your other
deliberate utterances are; a real _word,_ which I feel to be
such,--alas, almost or altogether the one such, in a world all
full of jargons, hearsays, echoes, and vain noises, which cannot
pass with me for _words!_ This is a praise far beyond any
"literary" one; literary praises are not worth repeating in
comparison.
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