Go, little booke, God send thee good passage,

And specially let this be thy prayere,

Unto them all that thee will read or hear,

Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,

Thee to correct in any part or all.

CHAUCERS Belle Dame sans Mercie.

IN concluding a second volume of the Sketch Book the Author cannot but express his deep sense of the indulgence with which his ?rst has been received, and of the liberal disposition that has been evinced to treat him with kindness as a stranger. Even the critics, whatever may be said of them by others, he has found to be a singularly gentle and good-natured race; it is true that each has in turn objected to some one or two articles, and that these individual exceptions, taken in the aggregate, would amount almost to a total condemnation of his work; but then he has been consoled by observing that what one has particularly censured another has as particularly praised; and thus, the encomiums being set off against the objections, he ?nds his work, upon the whole, commended far beyond its deserts.

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