To E. T. COOK, Esq. 



Dear Mr. Cooh, 



It was hy your favour, as Editor of the 

 Daily News, tJiat the very gist of this book first saw 

 the liyht, in the form of two articles in the columns 

 of that paper. It seems, then, peculiarly appropriate 

 that these pages — representing, in the measurements 

 common to journalists and authors, a growth from 

 four thousand to some sixty thousand words — should 

 he inscribed to yourself. 



Sincerely yours, 



CHAKLES G. HARPER. 



1852 



