"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere
spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play
their parts; which, methinks, are dive.sely presented unto me, as from a
cominion theatre or scene."-Burton.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

A NEW EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:
LEA & BLANCHARD,

SUCCESSORS TO CAREY & CO.

1839.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
8418654
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

R 1938

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by WASHINGTON IRVING, in the clerk's office of the southern district of New-York.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

Dedication
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The Author's Account of Himself.
The Voyage
Roscoe
The Wife
Rip Van Winkle
English Writers on America
Rural Life in England
The Broken Heart
The Art of Book-Making
A Royal Poet
The Country Church
The Widow and her Son
The Boar's Head Tavern
The Mutability of Literature
Rural Funerals
Tha Inn Kitchen
The Spectre Bridegroom
Westminster Abbey

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