D. AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, AN OFFERING FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY DAVID H. WILLIAMS. Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., Henry Perkins; New Jules Renouard. 1842. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, by DAVID H. WILLIAMS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Literary contributions for the next volume of the TOKEN may be addressed to the Editor, care of DAVID H. WILLIAMS. They should be forwarded before the 1st of April next. J. M. & L. HOLLINGSWORTH, Paper Makers, SAMUEL N. DICKINSON, Printer, BENJAMIN BRADLEY, Binder. Boston. RAWDON, WRIGHT, HATCH, & SMILLIE, Engravers, New York. PREFACE. THE "TOKEN" appears for the first time, this year, under the direction of its present publisher. It has been his aim to produce an Annual every way worthy of the public patronage, and equal, to say the least, to any thing of the kind which has issued from the press of our country; and to accomplish this end, he has spared neither time nor expense. The embellishments speak for themselves, and are believed to be, in every respect, highly creditable to the state of the arts in our country. In regard to the literary department, the work has laboured under some peculiar disadvantages, incident to the circumstance of its having passed into new hands, which will be avoided, we trust, in case the favour of the public should induce the publisher to continue his enterprise another year. The plan of the publication was not formed until so late a moment, as to make it necessary to collect the literary matter in some haste, and from not |