BY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

CALIFORNIA

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

48988

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

University Press, Cambridge:
Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.

1862

MAIN.

ΤΟ

THE MOST INDULGENT OF READERS,

THE KINDEST OF CRITICS,

MY BELOVED MOTHER,

ALL THAT IS LEAST UNWORTHY OF HER

IN THIS VOLUME

Is Dedicated

BY HER AFFECTIONATE SON.