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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Copyright, 1899,
BY MABEL LOWELL BURNETT.
_All rights reserved._