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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MARY E. HAVEN

JULY 2, 1914.

(201

LONDON:

KRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

TO

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

This Work

IS DEDICATED,

IN TESTIMONY OF THE ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION

OF

THE AUTHOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following desultory papers are part of a series written in this country, but published in America. The author is aware of the austerity with which the writings of his countrymen have hitherto been treated by British critics he is conscious, too, that much of the contents of his papers can be interesting only in the eyes of American readers. It was not his intention, therefore, to have them reprinted in this country. He has, however, observed several of them from time to time inserted in periodical works of merit, and has understood that it was probable they would be republished in a collective. form. He has been induced, therefore, to revise

and bring them forward himself, that they may at least come correctly before the public. Should they be deemed of sufficient importance to attract the attention of critics, he solicits for them that courtesy and candour which a stranger has some right to claim, who presents himself at the threshold of a hospitable nation.

July, 1838.

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