Captured

This history of personal adventures goes to the public with admitted and great deficiencies. When the reader, however, finds it silent on topics that would readily have suggested themselves to the literary adventurer, he will do well to reflect that it is one of the cases in which the editorship is not responsible and possesses no honorable remedy. Had the writer entered on his humble labor with the license of the fictionist, had he even felt at liberty to mend the record, it would have certainly had issued in a very different and, possibly, a much more engaging relation. A governing aim has been, at all events, to leave the story a true one-in whatever graces-of a more captivating character it may find defective.