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The compilation of this littlc work was undertaken in tlie hopc that Ihc English public woidd not bc sorry to rcceive a volume of spécimens of su lively and brilliant a writerasM. Alexandre Dumas, su carefully selected that it'might be Icft with safety on the drawing-room table, nr placed with confidence in the hands of youth. The immense fertility ofourAuthor and the gênerai merit ofhis varions productions bas rendered the eboice of extracts difficult 5 but bis numerous Travels and Ilisio-

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Oct. 10"' 18J6.