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 name" in almost every chapter. I do not go quite so far as the lively American writer, who, in the amusing tale of the "Cacoëthes Scribendi," encourages her whole family to write, by the assurance that "the printers would find them grammar and spelling;" but I do gratefully confess my obligations have been many to mine. The long sentences made short, the obscure made plain, the favourite words that would, like "Monsieur Tonson, come again," the duplicate quotations,—for the amendment of all these, I beg to make at once my acknowledgments and my thanks.