OR, TALES FOR THE TIMES. BY SEVERAL WRITERS. EDITED BY EUSTACE WILBERFORCE JACOB, (LATE) CAPT. 99TH REGIMENT. Non nobis solum. LONDON: EMILY FAITHFULL, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 250. m. 143. [The right of Translation is reserved.] PREFACE. I TRUST that this Story-Book will find favour in the eyes of the story-loving public. I had certainly intended bearing the whole expense of publication; but I soon saw that it would do no service to the "Lancashire Distress Fund," unless, in order to secure the desired result, I determined to publish it by subscription. To those who have so kindly aided me by subscribing to this Volume, I would tender my grateful thanks. It is simply from a reluctance to multiply matter that I have been induced to omit their names. E. W. JACOB. |