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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836,by Carey, Lea & Blanchard, in the Clerk’s Office of theDistrict Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
A lady distinguished as a writer and an artist;and esteemed by her friends for her domesticvirtues. With her accomplishments, and excellenceof character, she would be appreciated anywhere; but it has been her peculiar good fortuneto belong to Boston; a place, above all others,wherein a woman receives that high respect andconsideration to which she is so justly entitled.
A few years ago a book was published, called“Our Neighbourhood;” and those who read it,will recollect that the author intended, in the secondseries, to give a short sketch of some of themost conspicuous characters therein mentioned.The second series is now presented to the public,and is called “Camperdown,” the name of ourneighbourhood. The work will be continued, underdifferent titles, until the author has accomplishedthe object stated in the preface to the firstseries; and which the tenor of the two volumeswill more fully explain.
It is seldom that men begin to muse and sit alonein the twilight until they arrive at the age of fifty,for until that period the cares of the world and theeducation of their young children engross all theirthoughts. Edgar Hastings, our hero, at thirtyyears of age was still unmarried, but he had gonethrough a vast deal of excitement, and the age ofmusing had been anticipated by twenty years.He was left an orphan at fourteen, with a large income,and the gentl