THE TOKEN; A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT. EDITED BY S. G. GOODRICH. 'Then take my flower, and let its leaves While that confiding heart receives The thought it whispers to thine ear.' AZ 6291 BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY GRAY AND BOWEN. MDCCCXXXI. : NTONALE MOHAIRE ..1996 LAUSANNE/Dorigny DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, A. D. 1830, in the fifty fth year of the Independence of the United States of America, S. G. GOODRICH, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: The Token, a Christmas and New Year's Present. Edited by S. G. Goodrich. "Then take my flower, and let its leaves In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;' and also to an act, entitled 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."' JNO. W DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. IN coming a fourth time with our sober ANNUAL before the world, we need offer little, beside thanks to the public and to our friends, for the ample aid and favor, they have hitherto bestowed upon us. We have already expressed our intention to make the Token strictly national, and to depend entirely upon the resources of our country for the engravings, and the literary contents of the work. We yet see no cause to regret, or change this design, and as in the present volume, so in the future ones, we propose to adhere to it. We have the pleasure of giving in the present work an engraving from our countryman, M. J. Danforth, who has so much distinguished himself in London, within the last two years. We have also one engraving from a fine picture by Cole, for which we owe particular thanks to D. Wadsworth, Esq., of Hartford, to whom the picture belongs, and who politely gave us permission to have it |