STORIES OF THE Crescent City.
ByNAPIER BARTLETT.
NEW ORLEANS: STEEL & COMPANY'S TIMES JOB PRINT, NO. 72 CAMP STREET. 1869. Stereotyped by Hummel & Duncan, Natchez St., N. O.
For Sale by Geo. Ellis, opposite Post Office, N. O.PREFACE.
The present work purports to be a collection of newspaper stories published during the past year, and put into book form with but little power of revision. What, consequently, were the original defects of the series, that they were published by the Procrustean standard of length and arbitrarily made to confirm to a given space rather than to the necessities of the story, are still to be discovered in the present arrangement. If, after this statement, the reader will be good-natured enough to allow for the hasty composition incident to daily journals—for the fact that such stories form but the smaller portion of a newspaper laborer's contributions, whether regarded as to quantity or to length—some indulgence will be perhaps made for its most marked deficiencies.
