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828 49417

1859

Langley

9.22-25 1233.5

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.

THE INDICATOR, a series of papers originally published in weekly numbers, having been long out of print, and repeated calls having been made for it among the booksellers, the author has here made a selection, comprising the greater portion of the articles, and omitting such only as he unwil lingly put forth in the hurry of periodical publication, or as seemed otherwise unsuited for present publication, either by the nature of their disquisitions, or from containing commendatory criticisms now rendered superfluous by the reputation of the works criticised.

The author has little further to say, by way of advertisement to these pages, except that both the works were written with the same view of inculcating a love of nature and imagination, and of furnishing a sample of the enjovment which they afford; and he cannot give a better proof of that enjoyment, as far as he was capable of it, than by stating, that both were written during times of great troule with him, and both helped him to see much of that air play between his own anxieties and his natural cheerfulness, of which an indestructible belief in the good and the beau tiful has rendered him perhaps not undeserving.

LONDON, DEC. 6, 1833.

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