Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,

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

ΤΟ

CHARLES F. BRIGGS,

THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

A FABLE FOR CRITICS.

THE BIGLOW PAPERS..

THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT.

AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE..

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7

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

FABLE FOR CRITICS;

OR, BETTER,

(1 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 ANĘ MUSICAL MEDLEY,

THAT

BLIC

A SERIES OF JOKES

By A Wonderful Quiz,

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.

MOY WEN