THE NEW YORK 779022 A ASTON, LENOX AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, BY ALLEN AND TICKNOR, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. BOSTON: PREFACE. If any apology is required for the publication of this volume, we think it may be found, not only in the affection which the friends of the subject of this memoir felt towards him, and their sense of his estimable character, but also in the intrinsic interest of the journal itself. We hope, however, that much will be pardoned to private affection, if it has erred in thus endeavoring to preserve some relic of one so early removed from life. It was hoped that an exhibition of the spirit and temper of one who in the course of a very short life endeared himself to so many both here and in a foreign land, would be useful. And it was at the earnest desire of many of these friends, who wished that the image of one so happy in his moral and intellectual structure, might for a while be preserved from forgetfulness, that we were chiefly led to this publication. We have believed that this work will be received with interest by the religious world, and be especially useful to young students in theology. Many such have been nearly connected with Henry in the bonds of friendship and scholarship, and with them at least we trust it will find favor. The life of a retired young man passed in literary and religious study, and closing before the full bloom of manhood had been attained, cannot, it is true, present many incidents of general interest. Yet to many, such an exhibition is agreeable, as presenting the gradual unfolding of a tender mind, deeply imbued with the love of literary and sacred study, and holding forth a fair promise of usefulness, were the flexile shoot ever permitted to acquire the fulness and strength of maturity. The materials for this work have been most abundant. Though the author died so young, he left behind manuscripts which would fill volumes. From these, it has been a task of no little difficulty to make selections, and from these we have generally been able to give only short extracts. The journal kept in Edinburgh, and during the tour in Europe, which forms a large portion of the volume, was written during the haste of travelling, without any view to publication (with the exception of two or three chapters written after his return,) and without revision from the author. The editor has used great care in the selection and arrangement of these papers, and retained only those parts which seemed to him to be the most interesting. writer was brought much into contact with gentlemen of high literary standing while abroad, and his sketches of his frequent conversations with them are very full and minute. These we have retained with little alter The |