Village books

I should probably try this book first, but it has a fatal
objection in its too seductive title. "I am not curious," as Miss
Lottie Venne says in one of her parts, "but I like to know," and I
might be tempted to pervert the book from its natural uses and open
it, so as to find out what kind of a thing a moral and religious
anecdote is. I know, of course, that there are a great many
anecdotes in the Bible, but no one thinks of calling them either
moral or religious, though some of them certainly seem as if they
might fairly find a place in Mr. Arvine's work. There are some
things, however, which it is better not to know, and take it all
round I do not think I should be wise in putting myself in the way
of temptation, and adopting Arvine as the successor to my beloved
and lamented Frost.
Some successor I must find, or I must give up writing altogether,
and this I should be sorry to do. I have only as yet written about
a third, or from that--counting works written but not published--to
a half of the books which I have set myself to write.


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