ENTERTAINING MEDLEY; BEING A COLLECTION OF True Histories and Anecdotes, CALCULATED FOR THE COTTAGER'S FIRE-SIDE, DUBLIN: PRINTED BY THOMAS COURTNEY, 18, Whitefriar-street, 1826, Preface. ALTHOUGH Fairy Tales are sometimes amusing, they, nevertheless, it must be confessed, are of little use, and even do mischief, by holding forth what is not true, and thus misleading the reader; we have, therefore, made here a collection of real occurrences, and of true accounts of some of the most remarkable works of nature and art, which will astonish and entertain our readers, at least as much, we would hope, as the stories they have been in the habit of perusing; with this farther advantage, that as our book contains only what is strictly true, and vouched to be so by the best authority, those who read, will obtain instruction as well as amusement. |