POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES R. LOWELL. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME II. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. M DCCC LXIII. Entered according to Act vi Congress, in the year 1857, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. READER! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate FABLE FOR CRITICS; OR, BETTER, (I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, an old-fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents) A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES (Mrs. Malaprop's word) FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES; A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY, THAT IS, A SERIES OF JOKES By A Wonderful Quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 31st day, |