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Acknowledgment is due to A. C. Armstrong & Son for permission to use selections from the text of their edition of Lamb's

letters, edited by Alfred Ainger

COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1924, BY
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ESSAYS-

The Two Races of Men . . .

New Year's Eve . . . .

Imperfect Sympathies .

Dream-Children: A Reverie .

A Dissertatior. Upon Roast Pig

On Some of the Old Actors

Detached Thoughts on Books and

Reading . . . . .

The Superar nuated Man . .

Old China . . . . . . .

LETTERS

To Coleridge . ..

To Coleridge

To Manning

To Wordsworth . .

To Manning .

To Miss Hutchinson.

To J. Taylor

To J. Taylor .

To Bernard Barton.

To Wordsworth. .

To Bernard Barton ..

To Wordsworth. ,

To Wordsworth . .

VERSES

A Farewell to Tobacco

She Is Going ..

The Old Familiar Faces

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