I am going to weld Intercalary Day and Preface together. Therefore, unless there is to be mere trifling with the matter of the Preface, the Second Part must be here, in some measure at least, touched upon. It deserves to be noticed by critics, that an author who in the beginning has before him for his domain eight pages of white paper--just as, according to Strabo, the territory of Rome was eight leagues broad--gets on by degrees so far, and peoples the scribbled paper with so many Greek colonists,--for such our German characters are,[190]--that at last he has often marched through and settled a whole alphabet. This puts him into a condition to begin the Second Part. My second is, as I know for certain, much better than the first, although it is, to be sure, ten times worse than the third. I shall be amply rewarded, if my work is the occasion of one review more being made in the world; nor can I conceive of anything, unless it be this very thought, that books must be written, so that the learned notices of them may go on, which could keep an author up to the unspeakable labor of standing all day at the inkstand, and dyeing whole pounds of paper-rags _Berlin-blue_.... And now let this cool, serious, _hocus-pocus_ of a Preface--an expression which Tillotson maintains to be an abridgment of the Catholic formula, _hoc est corpus_--suffice for good reviewers and universities. I return to that which I properly meant by this whole episode. I have conceived the idea, namely, of not only announcing my intention to give the extra leaflets and side-shoots wherewith the Intercalary Days are to be filled up, in alphabetical order,--for disorder is the death of me,--but also to make a beginning here on the spot, and continue as far as the letter I. INTERCALARY--AND SIDE-SHOOTS, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. A.