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A Fable for Critics

by

James Russell Lowell





New York and London
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
The Knickerbocker Press
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Copyright, 1848
By GEORGE P. PUTNAM

Copyright, 1890
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

Note.—This edition is printed under the authorization of Messrs.Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the publishers of the complete works of JamesRussell Lowell.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York


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Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and
buy at a perfectly ruinous rate

A
FABLE FOR CRITICS;
OR, BETTER,

(I like, as a thing that the reader’s first fancy may strike,
an old-fashioned title-page,
such as presents a tabular view of the volume’s contents)

A GLANCE
AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES

(Mrs Malaprop’s word)

FROM

THE TUB OF DIOGENES:

A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY

THAT IS,

A SERIES OF JOKES

B y   A   W o n d e rf u l   Q u i z,

who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace,
on the top of the tub.


SET FORTH IN

October, the 21st day, in the year ’48

G. P. PUTNAM, BROADWAY
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PREFATORY NOTE

This jeu d’esprit was extemporized, I may fairly say, so rapidly wasit written, purely for my own amusement, and with no thought ofpublication. I sent daily instalments of it to a friend in New York, thelate Chas F. Briggs. He urged me to let it be printed and I at lastconsented to its anonymous publication. The secret was kept till afterseveral persons had laid claim to its authorship.{vii}{vi}

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