3.00 THE COURTIN'. Illustrated in Silhouette by WINS- THE CATHEDRAL. 16mo 200 1.25 For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receip' of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO., Boston. 2.00 Second Series. 2.00 2.00 MY STUDY WINDOWS. 68424 BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A. M., PROFESSOR OF BELLES-LETTRES IN HARVARD COLLEGE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washingtog. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. PREFATORY NOTE. Y former volume of Essays has been so kindly MY received that I am emboldened to make anThe papers other and more miscellaneous collection. here gathered have been written at intervals during the last fifteen years, and I knew no way so effectual to rid my mind of them and make ready for a new departure, as this of shutting them between two covers where they can haunt me, at least, no more. I should have preferred a simpler title, but publishers nowadays are inexorable on this point, and I was too much occupied for happiness of choice. That which I have desperately snatched is meant to imply both the books within and the world without, and perhaps may pass muster in the case of one who has always found his most fruitful study in the open air. ΤΟ PROFESSOR F. J. CHILD. MY DEAR CHILD, — You were good enough to like my Essay on Chaucer (about whom you know so much more than I), and I shall accordingly so far presume upon our long friendsnip as to inscribe the volume containing it with your name. Always heartily yours, CAMBRIDGE, Christmas, 1870. J. R. LOWELL. |