California Sketches, New Series

Produced by David A. Schwan <davidsch@earthlink.net>
New Series.
By O. P. Fitzgerald
With an Introduction by Bishop George F. Pierce.
The bearded men in rude attire, With nerves of steel and hearts of fire, The women few but fair and sweet, Like shadowy visions dim and fleet, Again I see, again I hear, As down the past I dimly peer, And muse o'er buried joy and pain, And tread the hills of youth again.
1883.
A Word.
Encores are usually anticlimaxes. I never did like them. Yet here I am again before the public with another book of California Sketches. The kind treatment given to the former volume, of which six editions have been printed and sold; the expressed wishes of many friends who have said, Give us another book; and my own impulse, have induced me to venture upon a second appearance. If much of the song is in the minor key, it had to be so: these Sketches are from real life, and all lives are tragedies.
The Author.
Nashville, September, 1881.
Introduction.
The first issue of the California Sketches was very popular, deservedly so. The distinguished Author has prepared a Second Series. In this fact the reading public will rejoice.