A STORY OF VENICE. BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,

THE TORTURE CHAMBER. BY WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER,

THE HOME OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. BY FRANCIS WILLIAMS,

THORWALDSEN'S CHRIST. BY REV. E.A. WASHBURN,

JUNE TWENTY-NINTH, EIGHTEEN FIFTY-NINE. BY CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND,

NO SONGS IN WINTER. BY T.B. ALDRICH,

BENI-ISRAEL. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

BOCAGE'S PENITENTIAL SONNET. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT,




TO THE PUBLIC.


At the desire of MISS DAVENPORT, for whose benefit this collection of
original Miscellanies by American authors has been made, I write this
brief Preface, without having had time to read the contributions which it
is designed to introduce. The names of the writers, however, many of which
are among the most distinguished in our literature, and are honored
wherever our language is spoken, will suffice to recommend the volume to
the attention of the reading world.