fancies himself in love, and by a necessary con- sequence grows poetical. The reader is treated with a splendid effusion, worthy of inscription on the sybilline leaves of the New-Monthly. Jere- my Levis the Father of Impassioned Poetry !— Literary Gazette. Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Prophecy of famine in the world of letters. A review as it should be. A dream, CHAP. XIX. The two rings and the two jewellers, CHAP. XX. Jeremy grows sick of physic, CHAP. XXI. Our hero tired of his uncle Jeremy- quarrels with him-and leaves his protection- CHAP. XXIII. Jeremy is cured of his passion-after paying for it—as we do for all diseases, CHAP. XXIV. At the Bull tavern.-Jeremy is de- tained by a storm. The Reverend Malachi Snubbs, and a mysterious lady; Sir James Mait- land, Lieutenant Rattle, and Sergeant Splint; Mr. Spits, and Mrs. Spits. Story of "The Bri- dal Night." New light in the kitchen. Tom Drammer. My host's Tale. A frolic. Scene CHAP. XXV. Jeremy, leaving the Bull tavern, meets with an adventure on the road, which once more brings him into company with Sir James Mait- CHAP. XXVI. The mystery of Mrs. Snubbs ex- plained. Jeremy finds himself in better society CHAP. XXX. The accident, that removes Jeremy from the circle in which he was making himself so happy, brings him once more into union with JEREMY LEVIS TO THE READER. INDULGENT READER: BEFORE thou beginnest the history of a life which God hath seen fit to visit with much vicissitude, I would have thee lend thy most diligent attention to the following simple caution.— Bear then well in mind, through the whole course of this work, that thou art not reading a book of adventures, contrived merely for thy amusement and the author's profit-but the life of a being, neither above nor below the common line of mortality, whose misfortunes, brought upon him chiefly by his own folly, may prove to thee an instructive, while not uninteresting lesson. And be not offended that his most serious moods are often traversed by a strange vein of levity; for such, dear Reader, is the faithful transcript of his feelings. It would seem that some men come into this world merely to weep, and others-merely to laugh. The same waves, that sink the former, but wash the latter with their spray. Of these latter am I: judge then accordingly Liberius si Dixero quid, si forte jocosius; hoc mihi juris Cum venia dabis A word more. Thou rememberest, doubtless, the preliminary story which Gil Blas tells his reader of the two scholars and the soul of the licentiate Pedro Garcias:-thou wilt apply his conclusion to the work before thee Qui que tu sois, ami lecteur, tu vas ressembler à l'un ou à l'autre de ces deux écoliers. Si tu lis mes aventures sans prendre garde aux instructions morales qu'elles renferment, tu ne retireras aucun fruit de cet ouvrage; mais si tu le lis avec attention, tu y trouveras, suivant le précepte d'Horace, l'utile mêlé avec l'agréable. Of what complexion soever thou mayest be, friendly reader, thou wilt certainly resemble one of those two scholars: for, if thou perusest my adventures, without perceiving the moral instructions they contain, thou wilt reap no harvest from thy labour; but, if thou readest with attention, thou wilt find in them, according to the precept of Horace, profit mingled with pleasure.-Smollet's Translation. |