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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829.

Author: Various

Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11258]

Language: English

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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

VOL. XIV, NO. 407.] DECEMBER 24, 1829. [PRICE 2d.

CONTAINING
ORIGINAL ESSAYS

HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF
SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS
AND TALES; ANECDOTES;

SELECT EXTRACTS
FROM
NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS;

_POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED;_
The Spirit of the Public Journals;
DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;
_USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS;_
_&c. &c. &c._

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VOL. XIV.
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London,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND,
(_Near Somerset House_.)
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1829

PREFACE

Wassailing, prefaces, and waits, are nearly at a stand-still; and in
these days of universality and everything, we almost resolved to leave
this page blank, and every reader to write his own preface, had we not
questioned whether the custom would be more honoured in the breach than
the observance.

My Public--that is, our readers--we have served you seven years, through
fourteen volumes; in each renewing our professions of gratitude, and
study for your gratification; and we hope we shall not presume on your
liberal disposition by calculating on your continued patronage. We have
endeavoured to keep our engagements with you--_to the letter_[1]--as
they say in w