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me, in again presenting myself before the public as the Editor of the, make my sincere acknowledgments for the extremely gratifying manner in which the former volume was received by them. An author’s best reward is the good-will of the public; I say his best, for the public has discrimination, and does not zealously, and with one voice, applaud what is unworthy,—therefore, to have won the public good-will, is to have deserved it. I am grateful, and will continue to deserve it.

In the present volume will be found four poems, full of beauty and deep sentiment, by the former lamented Editor: they come now like the scent of the violet after it is withered, and cannot fail of being loved and treasured by all.

M. H.