POETICAL WORKS
OF

J AM E S R. L.O W E L L.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
JAMES RUSSELL TaowLLL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
s T E R E o TY P E D A N D P R IN T E D B y
EI. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

TO
CHARLES F. BRIGGS,

THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. CONTENTS OF WOLUME II.

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A FABLE FOR CRITICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

THE BIGLOW PAPERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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 struke, an old-fashioned title-page,

such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents)

A GIANCE

AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PRO GENIES (Mrs. Malaprop's word)

FROM

THE TUB 0 F DI O GENES; A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY,

THAT Is,
A SERIES OF JOKES
ijn & 2010nterful Gottii,

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 31st day,
In the year ’48, G. P. Putnam, Broadway.