PUBLISHER’S INTRODUCTION.
ACCOMPANYING this volume, is a brief auto-biography.
In circulating
Mr. Arthur’s “Sketches of Life and Character,”
the publisher met so
frequently with an expressed desire to know something
of one whose
writings had made him a general favorite that he was
led to solicit
a personal sketch, to go with a new collection of
his writings. It
is but due to the author to say, that his concurrence
in the matter
was not without considerable reluctance. From
this sketch it will be
seen that Mr. Arthur is a self-made man, and that
he has gained his
present enviable position through long and patient
labor, and
against the pressure of much that was adverse and
discouraging. In
his elevation he has this pleasing reflection, that
in seeking to
gain a high place for himself, he has dragged no one
down, but
rather, sought to carry along, in his upward way,
all who could be
induced to go with him.
The portrait given in this volume, was engraved from
one recently
painted by Lambdin, and is considered a very good
likeness. Mr.
Arthur is now in his forty-second year, and looks
somewhat younger
than the artist has represented him.
For the information of those who wish to procure Mr.
Arthur’s
Temperance Tales, the publisher would state, that
in “Lights and
Shadows of Real Life,” are included all the
stories contained in the
recently issued edition of “Illustrated Temperance
Tales,” besides
nearly two hundred pages of additional matter, thus
making a larger,
more miscellaneous, and more acceptable book for all
readers.
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