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3. An. éd. 



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Vol. I, pp. viii, 



Published 



London : Richard Bentley, 1843, 2 vols. 12mo. 

 277; Vol. IL pp. vi, 289. 



Philadelphia: Lea d- Blanchard, 1843, 12mo. pp. ISO 

 under tho title " Sam Slicif in England — First Series." 



4. " " New York: William H. Colycr, 1843, 12mo. pp. 7G. 



Second Series. 



5. List éd.] London: Richard Bentley, 1844, 2 vols. 12mo. Vol. I. pp. iv, 288; 



Vol. II, pp. iv, 292. 



6. 2nd ed. London : Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols. 12mo. Vol. Ill, pp. iv, 



288; vol. IV, pp. iv. 292. 



This edition is stated to be " In four volumes." Vols. I and 

 II are the First Series, and vols. Ill and IV thel Second Series. 



7. An. ed. Philadelphia: Lea d Blanchard, 1844, 12mo. pp. 204. Published 



under the title " Sam Slick in England — Second Series." 



Combined Series. 



8. An. ed. New York: W. H. Coltjer, 1844. In 2 parts; 1st part, pp. 76, 



2nd part, pp. 68. 



9. " " London: 1849, 12mo. 



10. " " Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, [1S54?] 12mo. 



11. " " New York: 1856, 12mo. pp. 359. 



12. " " New York: Dick d Fitzgerald, [1858V] 12mo. 



13. " " London : George Routledge, 1859, 12mo. 



14. " " London: George Routledge, 1862, 12mo. 



15. " " London: George Routledge, 1871,. 12mo. pp. 306. 



16. " " London : George Routledge d Sons, n.d., 12mo. pp. xi, 395. 



17. " " New York: George Munro, 1880, 4to. In Seaside Library, No. 



473, October, 1880. 



Both series of this work are dedicated to Edmund Hopkinson, 

 Edgeworth, Gloucestershire. 



In some of the pirated editions the sub-title, " Sam Slick in Eng- 

 land." is the only title given. 



Several reviewers believed that Haliburton really was an attaché 

 of the American Legation in London, and in all seriousness discuss the 

 impossibility of a man of Sam Slick's breeding — or rather want of it- 

 being able to hob-nob with the distinguished personages, and visit the 

 exclusive places, that the so-called "Attaché" had access to. The work 

 is an admirable and descriptive skit upon the English society of that 

 lime. 



It is not improbable that this work was suggested by Charles 

 Dickens' " American Kotes," which appeared a year before the first 

 Feries of " The Attaché." Tlie latter was possibly intended as a good- 

 humoured retaliation upon Dickens. 



Sec. IL, 1909. 4. 



