It Is Now Four Years Since This Book First Appeared Before The Public,
And I Feel It My Duty Not To Let A Second Edition Go Forth Into The
World Without A Few Words Of Accompaniment. It Hardly Seems Necessary To
Assure My Readers That I Have Endeavored To Earn For The Following Pages
The Title Of A "Corrected Edition." An Author Is The Father Of His Book,
And What Father Could See His Child Preparing To Set Out On A New
And Dangerous Road, Even If It Were Not For The First Time, Without
Endeavoring To Supply Him With Every Good That It Lay In His Power To
Bestow, And To Free Him From Every Fault Or Infirmity On Which The World
Could Look Unfavorably? The Assurance Therefore That I Have Repeatedly
Bestowed The Greatest Possible Care On The Correction Of My Egyptian
Princess Seems To Me Superfluous, But At The Same Time I Think It
Advisable To Mention Briefly Where And In What Manner I Have Found
It Necessary To Make These Emendations.
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