THE NEW YORK: 163264 ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY GOULD & LINCOLN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. MEM AOBK EDWARD O. JENKINS, PRINTER, Preface. "BLESSED is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," is the language of that sublime moralist, Sancho Panza; and if the expectations of the reader are as moderate as those of the writer, he will certainly be blessed. Authorship being a profession to which the writer makes no pretensions, having a calling that is perhaps as useful, and certainly more profitable, he hopes, there-... fore, that no one will take the trouble to criticise an unpretending trifle, put forth, not with any aspirations of a literary kind, but simply at the suggestion cf a few friends, and mainly for their gratification. Perhaps an apology may be necessary for embodying in a work professing to be about Scotland, chapters on London, Paris, and Dublin; but the reader will soon perceive that this is the record of a pleasant journey, in |