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IN THE FIELD OF

LIFE AND LETTERS.

BY

WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON.

And without letters what is life?-ERASMUS.

NEW YORK:

ALBERT MASON, PUBLISHER.

1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington..

Electrotyped by SMITH & MCDOUGAL, 82 Beekman St., N. Y.

Lange, Little & Co., Printers, 108, 110, 112 and 114 Wooster Street, N. Y.

To my father, My first fruitful and my most fruitful teacher in the practice of English composition ; and

To my Mother, My earliest and my best example in strict literary conscience and long literary art,

This volume is affectionately inscribed by their grateful son,

The Author.