THE DUTCHMAN'S A TALE. FIRESIDE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH," "THE BACKWOODSMAN," "Somewhere about the time of the old French war." 828 P325 1835 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, by in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. English collector 10-29-40 41854 ADVERTISEMENT. THE idea of the following tale was conceived on reading, many years ago, "The Memoirs of an American Lady," by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan; and the work partly finished about that time. The reader acquainted with the book referred to will, perhaps, wonder at the indiscretion of the author of the Dutchman's Fireside in thus, as it were, provoking a comparison with one of the finest sketches of early American manners ever drawn. April, 1831 |