A

SELECTION

OF

IRISH MELODIES,

SONGS,

AND

POEMS.

BY

THOMAS MOORE.

LONDON:

T. J. ALLMAN, 42, HOLBORN HİLİ.

1859.

280.24.488.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN issuing this cheap edition of Moore's IRISH MELODIES, the Publishers beg to state that they have adhered strictly to the original plan of the Author, and have reprinted the work verbatim from the first edition. This work was published in six partson reaching the fifth part, the Author announced that it was then very near its termination, and that the sixth number would most likely be the last"three volumes would then have been completed according to the original plan."-When the sixth part appeared, the following advertisement accompanied the work, which is here given entire

"In presenting this sixth number to the public as our last, and bidding adieu to the Irish harp for ever, we shall not answer very confidently for the strength of our resolution, nor feel quite sure that it may not prove, after all, to be only one of those eternal farewells which a lover takes of his mistress occasionally. Our only motive, indeed, for discontinuing the work, was a fear that our treasures were beginning to be exhausted, and an unwillingness to descend to the gathering of mere seed-pearl, after the very valuable gems it has been our lot to string together. But this intention which we announced in our fifth number,