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Preface, like a Master of the Ceremonies, introduces two Strangers to an Interview, and upon occasions of this nature, the book-seller usually officiates as a Sir Clement Cotterel to the reader.If we were to go on with our similes, we should compare an author, to a convict at the place of execution, for let him have talked never so much, he has still a last word to say to the public.