ΤΟ

SHARON TURNER, ESQ.,

F.S.A. R.A.S.L.,

THIS VOLUME

IS

HUMBLY DEDICATED,

IN SINCERE RESPECT,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

ADVERTISEMENT.

MANY of these pages treat upon subjects with which I have so long been familiar, that I feel but little delicacy in offering them to the public. They will find their portion of readers, receive their share of censure and praise-then be laid aside and forgotten, like many a better work. Some of the papers, I have no doubt, will just awaken sufficient interest to keep them afloat during their short day-especially such as treat upon every-day life, and those domestic scenes which have fallen under my own eye, and which must, therefore, have the merit of being original. Many literary men, whose opinions I set great store by, have often expressed a wish that I should sketch such subjects as have come under my own experience; and in five or six of these papers I have attempted the task; and on their reception depends the working out of my plan. If they