The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher
The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher THE CALIFORNIANS BY WALTER M. FISHER Milagros ó no milagros, dijo Sancho, cada uno mire cómo habla ó como escribe de las personas, y no ponga á trochemoche lo primero que le viene al magin. CERVANTES, Don Quixote. Un historien a bien des devoirs. Permettez-moi de vous en rappeler ici deux qui sont de quelque considération; celui de ne point calomnier, et celui de ne point ennuyer. VOLTAIRE, Letter to M. Norberg. Et sermone opus est, modo tristi, sæpe jocoso; Defendente vicem modo rhetoris, atque poetæ, Interdum urbani, parcentis viribus, atque Extenuantis eas consulto. Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res. HORACE, Lib. I., Sat. 10. London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1876 [ All rights reserved.] The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.094 CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS. To MR. HUBERT H. BANCROFT, OF SAN FRANCISCO. MY DEAR BANCROFT, Your literary genius, clear head, and warm heart, are among my pleasantest memories of California. It is fitting that to you specially, greatest of The Californians, this book should be presented by its author, and your friend, WALTER M. FISHER. LONDON, August, 1876. PREFACE. THIS book has evolved itself, it is hoped by selection of the fittest, from the note-books of a worker in literature, engaged during the past four years in California. The pages of “The Californians” will show that it has been its author's main business during his absence from England to observe and study, both directly and through the medium of what others have written, the people and the things he here discusses.
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