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Excerpt from Famous Persons and PlacesFor some remarks that should properly introduce much of the con tents of the present volume, the reader is referred to the Preface pub lished with a previous number of the Series, entitled Pencillings by the Way. A portion of the original Pencillings is here given, the size of the work having compelled an unequal division of it, and the remaining and smaller part serving to complete another volume, With some additional sketches of the same character.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Winter WreathA lkmimtic Sketch, A Vi~it tn Niagara, The Chip at, The Bitter Morning, The Prairie on Fire, The Duel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Winter WreathA lkmimtic Sketch, A Vi~it tn Niagara, The Chip at, The Bitter Morning, The Prairie on Fire, The Duel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Pencillings by the WayThose of my letters which date from England were written within three or four months of my first arrival in this country. Fortunate in my introductions, almost em harrassed with kindness, and, from advantages of com pari son gained by long travel, qualified to appreciate keenly the peculiar delights of English society, I was little disposed to find fault. Every thing pleased me. Yet in one instance a - one single instance - I indulged myself in stricture upon individual character, and I repeat it in this work, sure that there will be but one person in the world of letters who will not read it with approbation - the editor of the Quar terly himself. It was expressed at the time with no per sonal feeling, for I had never seen the individual concerned, and my name had probably never reached his ears: I but repeated what I had said a thousand times; and never with out an indignant echo to its truth - eu opinion formed from the most dispassionate perusal of his writings - that the editor of that Review was the most unprincipled critic of the age. Aside from its flagrant literary injustice, we owe to the Quarterly, it is well known, every spark of ill feel ing that has-been kept alive between England and Ame rica for the last twenty years. The sne'ers, the Opprobrious epithets of this bravo in literature have been received in a country where the machinery of reviewing was not under stood, as the voice of the. English people, and an animosity for which there was no other reason has been thus periodi cally fed and exasperated. I conceive it to be my duty as a literary man - I know it is my duty as an American - to lose no Opportunity of setting my heel on the head of this rep tile of criticism. He has turned and stung me. Thank God, I have escaped the slime of his approbation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pencillings by the WayThose of my letters which date from England were written within three or four months of my first arrival in this country. Fortunate in my introductions, almost em harrassed with kindness, and, from advantages of com pari son gained by long travel, qualified to appreciate keenly the peculiar delights of English society, I was little disposed to find fault. Every thing pleased me. Yet in one instance a - one single instance - I indulged myself in stricture upon individual character, and I repeat it in this work, sure that there will be but one person in the world of letters who will not read it with approbation - the editor of the Quar terly himself. It was expressed at the time with no per sonal feeling, for I had never seen the individual concerned, and my name had probably never reached his ears: I but repeated what I had said a thousand times; and never with out an indignant echo to its truth - eu opinion formed from the most dispassionate perusal of his writings - that the editor of that Review was the most unprincipled critic of the age. Aside from its flagrant literary injustice, we owe to the Quarterly, it is well known, every spark of ill feel ing that has-been kept alive between England and Ame rica for the last twenty years. The sne'ers, the Opprobrious epithets of this bravo in literature have been received in a country where the machinery of reviewing was not under stood, as the voice of the. English people, and an animosity for which there was no other reason has been thus periodi cally fed and exasperated. I conceive it to be my duty as a literary man - I know it is my duty as an American - to lose no Opportunity of setting my heel on the head of this rep tile of criticism. He has turned and stung me. Thank God, I have escaped the slime of his approbation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.