BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

FIELDS, OSGO0D, & co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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THESE essays on “The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ” were originally delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute, in the spring of 1859, and were first printed in The Atlantic Monthly during the years 1867 and 1868.