POETICAL WORKS

OF

JAMES R. LO WELL.

COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

MDCCC LXIII.

Entered according to Act i Congress, in the year 1857, by

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetts.

TO

CHARLES F. BRIGGS,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

READER! walk up at once (it will soon be too late)

and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate

А

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

By A Wonderful Quiz,

toho accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit

and grace, on the top of the tub.

Set forth in October, the 31st day,
In the year '48, G. P. Putnam, Broadway.