Download or read book Nuts and Nutcrackers written by Charles James Lever and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Providence, instead of a vagabond, had made me a justice of the peace, there is no species of penalty I would not have enforced against a class of offenders, upon whom it is the perverted taste of the day to bestow wealth, praise, honour, and reputation; in a word, upon that portion of the writers for our periodical literature whose pastime it is by high-flown and exaggerated pictures of society, places, and amusements, to mislead the too credulous and believing world; who, in the search for information and instruction, are but reaping a barren harvest of deceit and illusion.