"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator
of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts;
which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me as from a common theatre or
scene."-Burton.

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.

WITH ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY F. O. C. DARLEY.

ENGRAVED BY CHILDS, HERRICK, ETC.

NEW-YORK:

GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.

MDCCCL.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
WASHINGTON IRVING,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York,

JOHN F. TROW Printer and Stereotyper, 49 Ann-street, N. Y