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PREFACE.

During the five years which have elapsed since the appearance of the first portion of this Miscellany, it has so firmly established its claims to public favour, that the Editor conceives it to be scarcely necessary to detain the reader with any prefatory address, either for the purpose of bespeaking indulgence for defects, or directing attention to the merits, of this sixth volume-confident, from experience, that the one will not fail to be cheerfully granted, and the other to be duly appreciated. Without enlarging, therefore, on these topics, he submits it to the world, such as the united talents of the literary contributors, and of the artists engaged in its embellishment, have enabled him to make it.

The Editor cannot, however, forbear observing that, owing to the limits to which he is confined, and the unexpected length of some of the articles in this volume, he has been prevented from introducing many compositions intended for insertion; and he parti-

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