"A writer of this ftamp, I confess, appears to me as much Superior to a common book-worm, as a library of real books is fuperior to a mere book-cafe, painted and lettered on the outfide with the names of celebrated works.

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"Mr. Bickerstaff himself is a gentleman and a scholar, humourist and a man of the world, with a great deal of nice, easy, naivete about him.”

HAZLITT.

By H. R. MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF "THOS. MOORE, HIS LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CONTEMPORARIES," &c., &c.

ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN AND ROBERTS. 1861.

THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

201060B

ASTOR, LENOX AND TLDEN FOUN ATIONS 1942

M'CORQUODALE & Co., PRINTERS, LONDON.-WORKS, NEWTON.