“The author of the ‘Sketch Book’ cannot but feel highly flattered that his Essays should be deemed worthy of insertion in so elegant and polite a miscellany as the ‘Literary Gazette.’ A corrected and modified edition of the work is about to be republished in this country, which he barely mentions, and leaves it to the more experienced judgment of the Editor to determine how far the extracts may be made without anticipating and injuring the collective republication of the work. At the same time he begs leave to add his conviction that he could not have a better introduction to fashionable notice, than the favourable countenance of the ‘Literary Gazette.’”
