BOOK IV.
In which this History begins to rattle.
CHAPTER I.
The Author Meanders Upon The Enduring Hills; And The Reader Will Lose Nothing By Not Accompanying Him.
In pursuit of our opinion that the novel should hark back to its origin and be as a story that is told by mouth to group of listeners, here we momentarily break the thread.
It is an occasion for advertisement.
As when the personal narrator, upon resumption of his history, will at a point declare, “Now we come to the exciting part,” so now do I.