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 A volume like the present, whose circulation it was supposed would be a limited one, seems scarcely to require an introduction: but, having met with a success which has far exceeded the writer's expectations, she deems it proper to state, that many of the pieces have previously appeared in the periodicals of the day, and are now for the first time collected. They have not been arranged in the order of their dates, but in accordance with their subjects—those at the close of the volume being the productions of earlier years.