Page:Posthumous works, in prose and verse - Ann Eliza Bleecker.djvu/13



N the publication of Pothumous Works, it has been uual for the Editors or Publihers to accompany them with a Prefatory Addres,—generally explaining the particular reaons for offering them to the world, or relating their peculiar merits, and conequently their claim to the patronage of the lovers of cience. In compliance with this general cutom we think it neceary merely to note, that having been frequently olicited to publih, in a eparate volume, a part of thoe writings of Mrs. which had appeared in the New-York Magazine, we conceived a collection of all uch of her poems and eays as might with propriety come before the public, would be more likely to meet the approbation both of her friends, and of the friends of American literature. Having uggested this idea to thoe who appeared mot trenuous for the meaure, we were pleaed to find it met their hearty concurrence; and through the obliging dipoition of her huband and daughter, we are now happy in being able to preent this volume to our fellow citizens.