THESE trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random "the rounds of the press." I am naturally anxioi-- that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is in cumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in …
Contrary to a long-established usage, a summer had been passed within the walls of a large town : but, the moment of liberation arrived, the bird does not quit its cage with greater pleasure, than that with which post-horses were commanded. We were four in a light travelling caliche, which strong Norman cattle transported merrily towards their native province. For a time we quitted Paris, the q…
THIS work has already appeared in Graham's Magazine, under the title of " Rose Budd." The change of name is solely the act of the author, and arises from a conviction that the appellation given in this publication is more appropriate than the one laid aside. The necessity of writing to a name, instead of getting it from the incidents of the book itself, has been the cause of this departure from…
THE history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details. The first alone is necessary to the legitimate objects of fiction. One of the misfortunes of a nation is to hear little besides its o…