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candour.—Should an humanized generation find relief from a liſtleſs hour in the reveries of an iron age, the duſt ſhall be bruſhed off two or three more volumes of old tales, and they ſhall be trimmed for open market. And for myſelf I engage, if I can once more lay hold of the tranſlator, to extort from him a full account of their real origin.—Should they be rejected, as too plain and artleſs for the intellectual palate of theſe times, the recital would afford no gratification to curioſity.
TALES.
