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, - This story is not to be a novel, as the world understands the word; and we tell you so beforehand, lest you be in ill-humor by not finding what you expected. For if you hae been told that your dinner is to be salmon and green pease, and made up your

you be

so beforehand, lest

ing what you expected.

your dinner

is

For

to be salmon

up your mind to that

to the table, find that

you may be out of

it

sorts



in ill-humor

and we

by not

tell

find

you have been told that

if

and green pease, and made

of

bill



fare,

and then, on coming

beefsteak and tomatoes,

is

not because beefsteak and

tomatoes are not respectable viands, but because they

what you have made up your mind to enjoy.

are not

Now,

a novel, in our days,

is

a three-story

affair,

a complicated, complex, multiform composition, requir

ing no end of scenery and dramatis personce, and plot

and

plan, together with trap-doors, pit-falls, wonderful

escapes and thrilling dangers

one

all

over the earth,

and the scenes transport



to England, Italy, Switzerland,

Japan, and Kamtschatka.

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But

this is a little

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