BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1898

Harvarit College Library

Jan. 9, 1899

Dituost of
Cliver B. Henshaw.

COPYRIGHT, 1876.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

TWENTY NINTH EDITION.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. 8. A.

Printed by H. 0. Houghton and Company.

TO

R. W. EMERSON.

A love and honor which more than thirty years have deepened, though priceless to him they enrich, are of little import to one capable of inspiring them. Yet I cannot deny myself the pleasure of so far intruding on your reserve as at least to make public acknowledgment of the debt I can never repay.