The Doctor's Daughter

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Charles Dickens observes with much truth, that though seldom read, prefaces are continually written. It may be asked and even wondered, why? I cannot say that I know the exact reason, but it seems to me that they may carry the same weight, in the literary world, that certain sotto voce explanations, which oftentimes accompany the introduction of one person to another, do in the social world.