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OF JAALAM TO THE HON. JOSEPH T. BUCKING-
HAM, EDITOR OF THE BOSTON COURIER, IN-

CLOSING A POEM OF HIS SON, MR. HOSEA
BIG LOW

No. II. A LETTER FROM MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO
THE HON. J. T. BUCKINGHAM, EDITOR OF THE
BOSTON COURier, covering a Letter froM
MR. B. SAWIN, PRIVATE IN THE MASSACHU-
SETTS REGIMENT.

No. III. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS

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No. IV. REMARKS OF INCREASE D. O'PHACE,

ESQUIRE, AT AN EXTRUMPERY CAUCUS IN
STATE STREET, REPORTED BY MR. H. BIG-

LOW.

No. V.-THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT. SOT TO

A NUSRY RHYME.

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NO. VI. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED.

No. VII. A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE

FOR

THE PRESIDENCY IN ANSWER ΤΟ SUTTIN
QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY MR. HOSEA BIG-
LOW, INCLOSED IN A NOTE FROM MR. BIGLOW
TO S. H. GAY, ESQ., EDITOR OF THE NA-
TIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD

- A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN,

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118

128

Esq.

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No. IX. - A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ. 162

NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE.

It will not have escaped the attentive eye that I have, on the title-page, omitted those honorary appendages to the editorial name which not only add greatly to the value of every book, but whet and exacerbate the appetite of the reader. For not only does he surmise that an honorary membership of literary and scientific societies implies a certain amount of necessary distinction on the part of the recipient of such decorations, but he is willing to trust himself more entirely to an author who writes under the fearful responsibility of involving the reputation of such bodies as the S. Archaol. Dahom., or the Acad. Lit. et Scient. Kamtschat. I cannot but think that the early editions of Shakspeare and Milton would have met with more rapid and general acceptance, but for the barrenness of their respective title-pages; and I believe that, even now, a publisher of the works of either of those justly distinguished men would find his account in pro

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curing their admission to the membership of learned bodies on the Continent, ceeding no whit more incongruous than the reversal of the judgment against Socrates, when he was already more than twenty centuries beyond the reach of antidotes, and when his memory had acquired a deserved respectability. I conceive that it was a feeling of the importance of this precaution which induced Mr. Locke to style himself "Gent." on the title-page of his Essay, as who should say to his readers that they could receive his metaphysics on the honor of a gentleman.

Nevertheless, finding that, without descending to a smaller size of type than would have been compatible with the dignity of the several societies to be named, I could not compress my intended list within the limits of a single page, and thinking, moreover, that the act would carry with it an air of decorous modesty, I have chosen to take the reader aside, as it were, into my private closet, and there not only exhibit to him the diplomas which I already possess, but also to furnish him with a prophetic vision of those which I may, without undue presumption, hope for, as not beyond the reach of