In introducing this volume to the Public, the Author would simply
remark, that it was written at different periods of a college life,
which has just expired; (the Scripture Sketches at a very early part of
it.) He has no intention of screening its faults, either of feeling or
style, beneath his ‘score of summers;’ but as prefaces are the fashion,
he has thought the mention of the fact would not be amiss in the
promotion of a proper understanding between himself and his readers.