Excerpt from Holland House

In bringing out the Second Edition of my book I must thank those critics who introduced me to the Public, and the Public who so favourably accepted their introduction.

It may seem illogical to be grateful for criticisms and not to act upon them. But having very good grounds for my statements as to facts, I prefer maintaining them to profiting by other people's ideas, and as for those criticisms which I might, with profit to myself and to my readers, turn into corrections, they are so numerous and so many-sided that, were I to adopt them all, the book would lose its unity, and I my identity, and the result would be rather an index to other people's general information than a particular guide to Holland House.

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