TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.
TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.
BY
SAMUEL WARREN, F.R.S.
Vol. I.
BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1900.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
To Emily,
A LITTLE BLUE-EYED LAUGHING IMAGE OF PURITY
AND HAPPINESS,
THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED
AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF A FATHER'S AFFECTION
FOR AN ONLY DAUGHTER.October, 1841.
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PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
The fact that a well-printed edition of this notablestory has not been in print either in England orAmerica since its original publication in 1841 is asufficient reason for the present edition.
It includes the valuable notes in which the authorelucidated the "many legal topics contained in thework, enabling the non-professional reader to understandmore easily the somewhat complex and elaborateplot of the story."
Of the story itself it is hardly necessary to speak.Always deservedly popular, it has been widely readfor nearly fifty years in England and America, hasbeen translated into French and German, and hasonly required to be presented in a pleasing form,with readable type and good paper, to insure it thecirculation which it deserves.
Boston, 1889.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The Author of this Work begs gratefully to expresshis conviction that no small share of anysuccess which it may have met with, is attributableto the circumstance of its having had the advantageof an introduction to the public through themedium of Blackwood's Magazine—a distinguishedperiodical, to which he feels it an honor to havebeen, for a time, a contributor.
One word, only, he ventures to offer, with referenceto the general character and tendency of"Ten Thousand a-Year." He has occasionallyobserved it spoken of as "an amusing and laughable"story; but he cannot help thinking that noone will so characterize it, who may take thetrouble of r