Acknowledgment
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.
Be it remembered, that on the twentysixth day of November, A. D. 1828, in the fiftythird year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel G.
Goodrich, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book,
the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
`The Legendary, consisting of Original Pieces, principally illustrative of
American History, Scenery, and Manners. Edited by N. P. Willis. Volume II.'
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled `An act
for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and
books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;
' and also to an act, entitled `An act supplementary to an act, entitled,
“An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts,
and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned;” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving,
and etching historical and other prints.'
JNO. W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
EXAMINER PRESS.
Hiram Tupper, Printer—Bromfield Street.
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PREFACE.
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The design of the Legendary, it would appear by the
criticisms upon the first volume, is not yet understood. We
have been censured for admitting contributions which were
not strictly legends of America. This has surprised us, because
we were at particular pains to be explicit; and we have
by us the original prospectus, a note to which reads thus;—
`In answer to several inquiries, the publisher would remark
that contributions to the Legendary need not necessarily relate
to America. Tales, ballads, and romances, whether partly
historical or wholly fictitious, and the scenes of which are laid
in any other country, will come within the plan of the publication.
Those, however, which are connected with our own
country will be preferred.' We have been put to some trouble
by this misapprehension, and we hope hereafter to be understood
both by critics and contributors.
The present volume is a pretty fair specimen of what we
intended the Legendary to be. We have found more
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difficulty than we anticipated in getting proper contributions, but
we trust we have succeeded in making it interesting. The
reception of the present number will decide the question of
its continuance.
We particularly request our contributors to allow us to
publish their names. This is a matter of some importance to
us, and we must insist upon it. Our friends may be assured
that no production shall appear, which, as far as the Editor's
judgment may be trusted, does not honor to the writer.
Editor.
Boston, December 1, 1828.
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CONTENTS.
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The Field of the Grounded Arms, Saratoga—By Fitz-Greene
Halleck 1
The Stepmother—Anonymous 5
Lionel—By Robert Morris 84
The Murderer's Grave—Anonymous 89
Musings. To Rosabelle—By Willis G. Clark 94
Leaves from a Colleger's Album—By N. P. Willis 96
Autumn Musings—By George Lunt 110
The Camp Meeting—Anonymous 113
The Hudson—By H. Pickering 127
The Schoolmaster—Anonymous 133
Bennett's Bridge—By Joseph H. Nichols 142
To the Ice Mountain—By James O. Rockwell 144
First Meeting of the Old and New World, 1492—By Mrs
Sigourney 145
Extracts from a Sea Book—By Samuel Hazzard 150
Idleness—By N. P. Willis 182
The Interview between Cleaveland and Minna—By Louisa P.
Hickman 185
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The Mother's Grave—By William Grigg, m. d. 188
The Witch—Anonymous 191
The Poet's Dream—Anonymous 200
Hope—By William Grigg, m. d. 201
A Burial at Sea—By S. G. Goodrich 203
The Siege of Soleure—Anonymous 204
Romance—Anonymous 219
Unwritten Philosophy—By N. P. Willis 223
Elizabeth Latimer—Anonymous 243
Stanzas to the Memory of John G. C. Brainard—By W. G. C. 272
The Painter's Revelation—Anonymous 275
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THE TOKEN.
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The subscriber tenders his thanks to the contributors
to the Token for 1829, and now solicits their aid, and
that of others, in preparing the volume for 1830. It is
his belief that a work in all respects much superior to the
preceding ones, may yet be executed, by due exertion.
It is important that communications be forwarded as
early as March next. The publisher will be allowed
to remark that short articles will be preferred—prose
pieces should not exceed ten or fifteen pages.
S. G. GOODRICH.
Boston, December 1, 1828.
SPECIMENS OF AMERICAN POETRY, WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
S. G. Goodrich has in press a work of the above
title, which will be published about January 15th, 2
vols. 12mo.
This work will contain specimens and notices of about
seventyfive different poetical writers, from the earliest
period of American literature to the present time.
Boston, December 1, 1828.
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Acknowledgment
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The publisher of the Legendary regrets that
the practice of republishing entire articles from this
work, in the newspapers, without even stating the
source from which they are derived, makes it necessary
for him to say that similar instances in future, will not
be overlooked.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867 [1828], The legendary, consisting of original pieces, principally illustrative of American history, scenery and manners, volume 2 (Samuel G. Goodrich, Boston) [word count] [eaf414v2].
