December Tales, Vol. 1: I Turn Now to My Book, I Nunc Liber; Goe Forth My Brave Anatomy, Child of My Brain-Sweat; And Yee, Candidi Lectores, Lo! Here ... What You Please, My Masters (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from December Tales, Vol. 1: I Turn Now to My Book, I Nunc Liber; Goe Forth My Brave Anatomy, Child of My Brain-Sweat; And Yee, Candidi Lectores, Lo! Here I Give Him Up to You; Even Do With Him What You Please, My Masters

A Long Preface, like a long grace, which detains the guests unseasonably from the feast, is both impertinent and tedious. I shall not, therefore, in violation of my own maxim, oppose any unnecessary bar to the immediate enjoyment of the reader; but, wishing him a fair appetite, and good entertainment, suffer him to take up his knife, to cut into my pages, and begin.

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