BY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

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HARVAR
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

University Press, Cambridge:
Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

то

THE MOST INDULGENT OF READERS,

THE KINDEST OF CRITICS,

MY BELOVED MOTHER,

ALL THAT IS LEAST UNWORTHY OF HER

IN THIS VOLUME

Is Dedicated

BY HER AFFECTIONATE SON.