Epilogue to the Drama of Art Magic
Some readers there be whose chief aim is - unconsciously to themselves, perhaps - but greatly to the detriment of their higher natures - to search into what they read rather for the discovery of errors in orthography, and innovations upon conservative methods of typography, than for the elimination of ideas, or the enjoyment of soul intercourse with their author. To this class of readers our pages will doubtless present a fruitful soil for their special methods of criticism, and to such, we have no other apology to offer, than that contained in the few choice and pointed words of the Editor's Preface.
There is still another class whose methods of study have received the peculiarly significant soubriquet of, skimming. The chief delight of such persons is in an elaborately prepared Index, over the columns of which they rejoice to pore, industriously picking out just the particular words they have sympathy with, glancing at these - for Index worshipers only glance, do not read - and abandoning the rest of the volume to more patient and capable students than themselves.