Lambkin's Remains

Lambkin's Remains

The preparation of the ensuing pages has been a labour of love, and has cost me many an anxious hour. Of the writing of books, says the learned Psalmist (or more probably a Syro-Chaldic scribe of the third century) there is no end; and truly it is a very solemn thought that so many writers, furnishing the livelihood of so many publishers, these in their turn supporting so many journals, reviews and magazines, and these last giving bread to such a vast army of editors, reviewers, and what notI say it is a very solemn thought that this great mass of people should be engaged upon labour of this nature; labour which, rightly applied, might be of immeasurable service to humanity, but which is, alas! so often diverted into useless or even positively harmful channels: channels upon which I could write at some length, were it not necessary for me, however, to bring this reflection to a close. [Pg xvi] A fine old Arabic poemprobably the oldest complete literary work in the world(I mean the Comedy which we are accustomed to call the Book of Job)[5] contains hidden away among its many treasures the phrase, Oh! that mine enemy had written a book! This craving for literature, which is so explicable in a primitive people, and the half-savage desire that the labour of writing should fall upon a foeman captured in battle, have given place in the long process of historical development to a very different spirit. There is now, if anything, a superabundance of literature, and an apology is needed for the appearance of such a work as this, nor, indeed, would it have been brought out had it not been imagined that Lambkins many friends would give it a ready sale. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66103
Author: Belloc, Hilaire
Release Date: Aug 21, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English