COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY HENRY HOLT & CO.

John A. Gray, Agent,
Type-Setting Machinery,
16 & 18 Jacob Street,
New York.


PREFATORY NOTE.

Considerable portions of this work originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, but there is added to these a large amount of new matter not hitherto published, and the whole work has been thoroughly revised.


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CHAPTER I.