A PORTION of the work now submitted to the public
may probably be recognised as having been before them
in a somewhat different form—several of the earlier
chapters having been originally published in the pages
of the American Monthly Magazine. For reasons
with which it is unnecessary to trouble the world, the
publication of The Brothers in monthly parts was discontinued;
and it is, he fears, rather through the partiality
of his friends, than through the sobriety of their
judgment, that the author has been induced to unite
these passages into a connected form, for the purpose
of submitting them, with their sequel and conclusion, to
that ordeal which must decide whether their existence
shall continue beyond the hour in which they see the
light.

New-York, June 10th, 1835.

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Acknowledgment

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TO
COLONEL JOHN TRUMBULL,
OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION.

To one of his most esteemed friends, than whom, he is
alike proud and thankful to say, he has found none more
valuable, or more true—as a slight, but not, he trusts,
impertinent token of his sincere veneration and most
warm gratitude—this book is dedicated by the author;
with a deep sense, that, should it elsewhere meet so favourable
a reception as it is like to do from him to whom
it is now tendered, it will scarcely be indebted less to the
indulgence of the public, than he is himself to the friendship
of the individual.

New-York, June 10, 1835.

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