Letters From High Latitudes #221147

But for this I should never have had the hardihood to appear as an author before the public of this Continent, whose geographical position and fiscal arrangements enable its inhabitants to skim the cream from the litera ture of Europe, without troubling themselves either with its sedimentary deposits, or the irritating restrictions of its copyrights. Once indeed through the enterprise of a transatlantic Editor, whose nationality shall be nameless.