ARCHIBALD CAMERON: OR, HEART TRIALS.
"Beware of desperate steps, the darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away."NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET.
1852.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. C.W. BENEDICT, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER, 201 William Street.
PREFACE.
THESE pages are the contents of a few leaves of the book of life, in which memory, the recording angel of the soul, most religiously registers all the thoughts and actions of which the real life of every accountable being is composed. The hero—designated Archibald Cameron—is no fanciful character, but a real personage.
Some of the incidents may appear exaggerated, and may be deemed by some as wild and improbable. The case, however, is far otherwise.
Any one who carefully reads the book of his own life, will find that it contains far more startling incidents than he is at first apt to think, though a bitter experience ought to have taught him a different lesson.
The province that the book occupies is new, and may, it is hoped, prove to most readers interesting.
