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xiv I said I had nothing but thanks to offer,—I was wrong:—paradoxical as the term may appear, I have to congratulate my readers on the more than anticipated success of my work. I do heartily congratulate them on the proof they have given, by their approbation of these simple pages, that love of the great of  dwells in their hearts, and leads them to regard with gratification even the efforts of so humble a votress as myself, in advancing, however feebly, the great and elevating feelings which its rightly-directed study cannot but create.

Birmingham, Nov. 20th, 1836.