BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1881,

BY GEORGE WILLIS COOKE.

All rights reserved.

1621 065 1900

TO

DEMPSTER OSTRANDER,

A True Friend,

AND A GENUINE LOVER OF BOOKS, IN WHOSE LIBRARY

I FIRST READ AND LEARNED TO LOVE

THE ESSAYS OF EMERSON,

This Volume is Enscribed.

IF IT MEET WITH HIS APPROVAL, I SHALL
BE CONTENT.

State University of Iowa

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