DEDICATION. 



Whenever an author prefixes a dedication to 

 his book, it is presumed to be to some one for 

 whom he entertains sincere regard, profound 

 respect, or both together ; to whom, therefore, 

 can I more appropriately venture a Dedication 

 of this little Work, than to those towards whom 

 I not only feel the highest respect, but the 

 most heartfelt gratitude, arising from their more 

 than liberal notice of any little merits my 

 sundry writings may have possessed, and from 

 their more than lenient construction of the many 

 failures in point of language and artistic com- 

 position, that I am as much aware as any one 



