The Merchant's Clerk, and Other Tales (Classic Reprint)

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M subscribers have great pleasure in ofl'ering to the pubic a new volume of tales by the celebrated, although'vntil recently unknown author of those mas terly productions, the Passages from the Diary of a late Physician. From his long silence it was feared that his store of material was exhausted - that he would no more appear to charm or sadden the world of readers at his will. The advent of a new story with that well-known phrase at its beginning, From the Diary of a late Physician, in a recent number of Blackwood, was a signal for eager impatience and for great deli ght - the latter marred only by the unwelcome discovery that the tale was left unfinished 'in that num ber, and that a month at least must elapse before the exciting narrative could be resumed. The subscribers are happy in being enabled to supply the want, having received the remainder of the story from the author himself, through the agency of a friend in Europe. The other titles in the present volume are acknowledged by the author of the Diary, Mr. Warren, to be his own per formances; it may be observed, however, that such acknowledgment is scarcely needful, to any one at all.

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