The Riverside Aldine Series MELIBEUS-HIPPONAX THE BIGLOW PAPERS EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY HOMER WILBUR, A. M. PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, And (prospective) MEMBER OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED, AND for which see page 13.) The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute, Quarles's Emblems, B. II. E. 8 Fac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. § 1 BOSTON New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street 10 B HARVARD Copyright, 1848 and 1876, Copyright, 1885, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: No. I. A LETTER FROM MR. EZEKIEL BIGLOW 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 No. VII. A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN ANSWER TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY MR. HOSEA BIG- LOW, INCLOSED IN A NOTE FROM MR. BIGLOW 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. Archaeol. 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 |