Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory, Theoretical and Practical: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary (Classic Reprint)

Pliny Miles

ISBN 10: 0331649241 / ISBN 13: 9780331649246

Published by Forgotten Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory, Theoretical and Practical: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331649241
• ISBN 13: 9780331649246
• Binding: HRD
• Condition: New
• Weight: 715 grams

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Excerpt from Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory, Theoretical and Practical: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary

IN issuing a publication, a writer must consult the wants of the book-buying public, as much as the state of the Art on which he writes. N 0 author has a right to publish a book that he in his enthusiasm may think is in advance of the age, and then complain if he is not patronized. If a writer chooses to publish on any subject, he does so at his own risk, and by the decision of the public he must abide. I never had much respect for those beseeching, craving-your-attention sort of scribblers, who state very blandly in their Prefaces, that they have spent so much time, and so much money, in writing a book, all for the entertainment of the dear public, and consequently they consider that public under obliga tions to patronize them. Book-making is a kind of mer cantile transaction. If a work has merit, the public will most undoubtedly find it out, and buy it, because they be lieve it to be worth the money it costs. If a publication fail of success, then it is, to a great extent, destitute of merit, or the author has not consulted the wants of the pub lic. In either case he has no right to complain of neglect. This appears to be an author's position before the public.

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