NEW YORK:
HARPER AND BROTHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1854.

-SQ.,

LITERATURE,

AND CAREFUL CRITICISM

RGELY PROFITED,

THIS WORK,

ICKNOWLEDGMENT OF TIES,

ME CONSTANT SOURCES OF HAPPINESS

UGH MY WHOLE LIFE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

GEORGE T. CURTIS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

то

GEORGE TICKNOR, Esq.,

THE HISTORIAN OF SPANISH LITERATURE,

BY WHOSE ACCURATE SCHOLARSHIP AND CAREFUL CRITICISM

THESE PAGES HAVE LARGELY PROFITED,

I DEDICATE THIS WORK,

IN AFFECTIONATE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TIES,

WHICH HAVE BEEN TO ME CONSTANT SOURCES OF HAPPINESS

THROUGH MY WHOLE LIFE.