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A PREFATORY HINT. 



Before sending these little agglomerations of my 

 recollections oat of my hands, L feel, intuitively, I 

 ought to make some remarks in relation to them, so 

 as to save any one the trouble to make them for me, 

 or against me, for, I am fully aware that some may pos- 

 sibly say that recollector, L. Menand, is passably en- 

 dowed with vanity of all sorts, but especially literary 

 vanity above all poetical vanity. These remarks, 

 if made, are perfectly right and natural, according to 

 our " human nature." Yet I want to apologize before- 

 hand for that venial sin, vanity. "It ought to be 

 wished " that all sins should be similar to mine in 

 that line, vanity in the highest degree, and caused by 

 the same motives ! .... The community at large would 

 not be worse if not much better .... I have not much 

 more to say to justify my sin or sms, for I admit I 

 have more than one, though I do not monopolize them 

 all. My prose and poetry, may be, are two of them, 

 especially the later, for my justification I would say 

 that I have never studied much the theory of either. 



